When folk herbalist Iyana Esters goes out in the field to learn about Afro and Indigenous ancestral healing practices, she takes her camera, she told Double Scoop’s Brent Holmes in October 2023. Holmes reviewed the opening of Esters’ photography exhibit, Birthed From the Soil, which was on display at UNR’s Front Door Gallery through January. Now making its way to Las Vegas, the collection explores the life- and food-ways of Yawah Awolowo, an Alabaman farmer, chef, and midwife known as Mama Yawah. The photos’ gentle color and focus reflect not only Esters’ connection to her subject, but also her use of plant-based dyes in processing the images.

Exhibit runs through January 29.