SUSAN CAPERNA LLOYD
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Susan Caperna Lloyd Collection Purchased by the American Folk Life Center, Library of Congress
The thirty-year archive of Susan Caperna Lloyd, Italian American writer, photographer, and filmmaker, was purchased by the American Folk Life Center, Library of Congress, Washington, DC. Her photographs, a film documenting Good Friday rites (Processione: A Sicilian Easter) and book (No Pictures in My Grave: A Spiritual Journey in Sicily, Mercury House, 1992), led to the library’s interest in her work. Her portfolios, negatives, film, slides, writings and journals will be available in perpetuity to researchers and the public. Caperna Lloyd’s cross-cultural subjects are far-ranging: Famenco dance, Italian and Latin American santos, Italian-Argentine wine growers, Basque, Roma, and Hindu festivals, and folk heroes such as Emiliano Zapata, Che Guevara, and Juan Soldado. Read more ››
How one woman’s curiosity led her to a profound encounter with Goddess Kali, affording her peace in the aftermath of personal loss
My inspiration to travel to kolkata was thanks to the saint of the Roma gypsy people, Sara la Kali. I had recently watched her immersion in the Mediterranean Sea during what is known as her annual feast day, on May 24th in Saintes Maries de la Mer, France.
Sara la Kali is a Catholic saint who is traditionally dressed with 57 robes. Each year, thousands of gypsies carry this delicate, Asian-faced Goddess to the shores of the sea to be submerged. During the event that year, I, too, entered the water.
SMC: Saintes Maries de la Mer
Who is Saint Sara Kali? No one knows for sure. It is a mystery. But every year thousands of Romani (ethnicity of Indian origin, living mostly in Europe and the Americas) come in pilgrimage from all over the world to honor her. She lives in a crypt underneath the floor of St. Michael’s Church in Saintes Maries de la Mer, in the south of France.
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