The Crimson Coyote podcast welcomes Photographer and Poet MIMI MUTESA to Episode #5!
Mimi Mutesa (she/her) is a photographer at heart and has had work published in Elle UK and AfroPunk, to name a few. Mimi grew up in Uganda, but by the time she graduated with a bachelor’s in Film production and Media, she added Kenya, Congo, Zimbabwe and China to the list of countries she’d lived in. She now works in journalism in Washington, DC where she finds poetry a safe haven from ceaseless news cycles. Her biggest guilty pleasure is sunbathing, and she wants you to know it.
Toni Cade Bambara once said, “The role of the artist is to make the revolution irresistible.” Mimi Mutesa echoes this sentiment in her often-joyful photography, which challenges the “trauma porn” disseminated by the media. We are living in a time where the circulation of distressing images is pervasive, and the bulk of this content typically depicts the suffering of black and brown people. Mimi’s vibrant, laughter-filled images offer an alternative to the constant consumption of pain we have become accustomed to.
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