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Evolving series or work developing into video pieces…

Appropriated photographs from my father’s slides. A commercial photographer from the 1970’s through the early 2000’s his catalog of photographs display layers of his white identity. He would only ever see or be seen through this white lens.

The first image is part of a series of investigations of his trip to Machu Picchu for a documentary. As he bends with intention to request permission for photographing this woman. Is he able to be seen as anything other than a colonizer requesting something unknown? Is there any possibility he will truly be able to see this woman and child in any way other than his colonized perspective? What is he actually capturing or taking?

The following black and white photographs were inspired by Toni Morrison, Playing In The Dark. While literature and many white scholars have created the narrative that black is associated with death, where does the whiteness fit into this dialog and reframe the narrative where white exists in the space of death and fear? Carving into the horizon of these photographic prints with words and language which points to the layers of whiteness that overlay the American landscape.

One of these videos is shown on the home page here of the winter fog.