Yanique Calixte Photography

07/03/2025

✨ Real. Raw. Beautiful. ✨

Birth story and newborn documentary photos capture the genuine moments you’ll never want to forget — first cries, tiny yawns, and the love that fills the room. No poses. Just your story, as it truly is.

Let’s preserve your family’s first chapters together. 💛

www.calixtephotography.com

05/12/2025

Natural, wild, honest & free.

Through documentary and storytelling photography, we capture everything family and everyday stories.

Everything Family on Calixte Photography

05/10/2025

“When everyone around you has a baby, you believe it’s normal—like it’s just easy to have children. Until you experience loss, then you realize how much of a blessing they actually are. You don’t take the experience for granted and become more appreciative of the gift from God.”
- Mr. Gary

🤰🏾: Mrs. Marissa Gary
📸: www.calixtephotography.com

04/25/2025

11/24/2023

History is also about power. In fact, history is mostly about power. It is the story of the powerful and how they became powerful, and then how they use their power to keep them in positions in which they can continue to dominate others. It is because of this relationship with power that we have been excluded, marginalized and ‘Othered’. In this sense, history is not important for indigenous peoples because a thousand accounts of the ‘truth’ will not alter the ‘fact’ that indigenous peoples are still marginal and do not possess the power to transform history into justice.”

—Linda Tuhiwai Smith, Decolonizing Methodologies: Research and Indigenous Peoples

Model: Flowers, Lumbee Tribe
📷 Yanique Calixte Photography

10/08/2021

📍Tunis, Tunisia

09/10/2021

Saadia Mosbah is the founder of the organization, Mnemty – which fights racial discrimination.

Before the Tunisian revolution of 2011, she tried to launch her organization twice. The government then in power told her, “What are you talking about? That doesn’t exist. You are welcome guests here.” Tolerance is not what Saadia wants. She is not a “welcome guest”: she is home, and she wants a diverse and equal Tunisia.

“Racism in Tunisia is something silent, and rampant. There is still work to be done for the lives of black people” says Saadia.

📍Tunis, Tunisia

09/08/2021

A typical black family
Full of different shades of brown
Full of laughs, love and comfortable in their own sound

A typical black family
Unbothered and succeeding
Fascinating, trailblazing, being cautious while still proceeding

A typical black family
Bothered and surviving
Warm, welcoming, being cautious while complying

A typical black family
Full of battles and cries
Full of hindrances and provokings which roots are connected to the country’s ties

Author: Yanique Oloko
📍Tunis, Tunisia

A portrait of the ancestors and the family of Madam Saadia Mosbah, Tunisian Activist, Founder of Mnemty Organization.

There are no museums in Tunisia or much content available about the rich history of black Tunisians. I was privileged to be welcomed into the home of Madam Saadia to see and learn and explore. 🖤

09/01/2021

“Black Tunisians not only suffer from widespread poverty, exclusion in the job market and limited access to higher education, but are also largely absent from politics, media and other areas of public life. While underrepresented in Tunisian society, many black Tunisians are readily identifiable and subjected as a result to verbal abuse and even violence. “

-Minority Rights Organization
Interview with Emna Gelacia
📍Tunis, Tunisia