Sydona Chandon is a 23 year-old student in her final year pursuing a Bachelors of Arts degree at St Thomas University. Sydona is originally from Jamaica where her love for nature and photography began. Since then she has contributed her time here in Fredericton to Multiculturalism and has won awards according to her contributions to community outreach. Sydona is the proud owner of Work of Art photography, her work exhibits the human condition by demonstrating the essence of life. She seeks to highlight the beauty of diversity being a black woman who wishes to break barriers within society.
aRose from Concrete depicts another concept of the reality that Black Women face— these pictures paint an imagery of how women rise from the concrete symbolizing the hardships and barriers that were meant to keep them down but still ascending gracefully and poised like a red rose from the concrete.
Imagine growing even in the hardest environments that were made to break you but elongating into a body of strength for yourself and those around you. A rose that AROSE. Photographed is young beautiful Ethiopian woman, wearing a handmade dress from her country, she embodies the rose as she ascends despite the scars, she rose boldly and beautifully.
