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| EN FOCO | Photographers | |
 Felicia Megginson untitled |
Felicia Megginson born in Los Angeles, California Selected Exhibitions: The Light Factory, Charlotte, North Carolina Bronx Museum of the Arts, Bronx, New York En Foco at Wilmer Jennings Gallery, New York, New York The Buhl Foundation, New York, New York Awards: En Foco's New Works Photography Awards (2002) Residencies: The Constance Saltonstall Foundation Residency The Center for Photography in Woodstock Residency, 2001 Felicia Megginson explores the concept of identity as it directly relates to her sense of self as an extension of the natural environment. It is a concept that has intrigued her ever since she was a child recognizing her reflection in the mirror. With time, one learns of associations people make with what they see—how identity is borne out of sociological and psychological factors as well as the environment. In her series Communion, Megginson intermingles nature with images of herself through double exposures, as a metaphor of the black woman regaining a sense of the connection to the earth, as a place of grounding, sacredness and timeless history. Megginson states that she wants to “unite the idea of nature and the African American woman in a way that moves beyond the bare-breasted images of the aboriginal natives still found in National Geographic. Yet I also want to challenge contemporary images of the black female form, which are often presented as predatorily sexual and devoid of all sensuality or humanity.” |
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