American photographer Phyllis Galembo has an obsessive love for attires and garments which people from different parts of Africa are wearing during religious and profane celebrations and rites. Her images are disconcerting. The photographer abstains from every form of décor or stylization, thus drawing the spectator’s eye directly towards the ‘living statues’. The natural extravagance of the dresses with their beads, shells, feathers and waste matter, evokes all sorts of involuntary associations with haute couture shows in Paris.