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19th Annual Smithsonian Magazine Photo Contest People
Hannah Baiye

The gift of generational wealth and wisdom. The is ancestral power in listening to the voice of someone who has lived a long life. My grandmother, no one knows how old she is. She is in her 90s. I took this photograph in her village in Illorin. She smiled as she told me stories of me as a child.

Photo Detail
Date Taken: 12.2019
Date Uploaded: 07.2021
Photo Location: Illorin, Nigeria
Camera: NIKON D5300
Copyright: © Ebiere Orusa