Open Edition Print
Rob Rooker has lived in Southern Sudan and Kenya since 2001. He has been painting for the last ten years and have been doing artwork since he was a young child. He grew up in Texas and worked as a graphic designer until he volunteered as a logistician with a humanitarian agency in Southern Sudan. His inclination is to paint people and faces. He has documented the images of Southern Sudan particularly those of children during a difficult political and socio-economic era. He demonstrates the use of shades of monochromatic color and his technique and style are quite unique.
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APPREHENSION
WAHLED
Catalogue# KEN.28.101
Country: Sudan
Size: 24cm x 24cm
Medium: Open Edition Print
Price: € 25
Painted on a wall in Maridi, Sudan. The image is of a young Nuer boy looking up among a crowd of people.
Catalogue
# KEN.28.102
Country: Sudan
Size:
24cm
x
24cm
Medium:
Open Edition Print
Price: € 25
Painted on a wall in Maridi, Sudan. “Wahled” is a phonetic spelling of the Arabic word for boy. Sudan is full of young boys. These could be Dinka, Nuer, Shilluk, Topasa, Barri, Zande, Murle, etc….
CATTLE CAMP
BOYS
Catalogue # KEN.28.103
Country: Sudan
Size:
24cm
x
24cm
Medium:
Open Edition Print
Price:€ 25
A group of Nuer boys staying in a cattle camp. During the dry season, families send their children to the cattle camps in order to be near a constant supply of fresh millk and care for the cows. They were very interested to see visitors.
Catalogue # KEN.28.104
Country: Sudan
Size:
24cm
x
24cm
Medium:
Open Edition Print
Price: € 25
Young Murle boys standing together. Often, when visitors arrive in a village in southern Sudan, the children are always the first to come and investigate what is going on.
