MUSÉE 29 – EVOLUTION
Evolution explores the concepts of progress, transformation, growth, and advancement in an age when images are taking a dramatic shift in the role they play in our lives.
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Yes, definitely. I felt such a sense of responsibility and in my community, pride is motivating force in most everything. I didn’t want to embarrass anyone but I also wanted to make images that were true to the feeling of a place, a person and my experience within it. As the work deals with difficult issues like abuse, and addiction, living in that head space took an enormous emotional toll
I am always interested to see how things have changed and I have also always been in love of Classic Art so the idea came very easily to my mind.
I was looking for the natural and flexible faces, to which I was drawn. Firstly I came to their houses, we got acquainted, drank tea and speak about something. Later on we began to seek the background and clothes after the first voltage subsided. Usually I’m shooting in a silence using only gestures.
In the course of my work I have developed different themes but with a common concept which is the affirmation of women's spirituality. In my work, often I represent the image of the African Muslim woman (with which I identify myself spiritually) as a strong and powerful woman and not submissive and dejected as she is often shown by the Western media.
So talking about the South Bronx, even though that was far from being an immediate realization, was a natural continuation of what I was doing before. I’m also very interested in how people organize collectively to assert their voices and rights.
And from there we make stories, recall something deep in our memory now passed, and we connect because the boy who we do not know, who we may even judge, made us feel for a moment. I can't overcome the representation of identity, but I can hopefully, look at the the ways in which each of us is susceptible to cultural expectations, ideals, and pressures and their internalization.
There is no intermediate negative or printing process. It’s always seemed significant to me that the very same light that bounced off the sitter’s face passed through the lens and exposed the plate. That immediacy, to me, is the essence of photography.
