Portraiture is my current mode of inquiry because bodies are our best archives. In this collaborative series, I explored photographs of my friends’ ancestors, especially mothers, and responded with work in 35mm color film. Many …
The following excerpt hails from Jongo & Adriano, a fotonovela by Brazilian artist Yhuri Cruz featuring two Black lovers who escape enslavement, one African-born and the other a Brazilian criollo. “Whatever resemblance these characters bare to historical fact might not be a coincidence,” Cruz …