Dates:
December 1, 2004 – January 12, 2005
Location:
Vantage Point Gallery (a partnership between the International Center of Photography and The Point CDC)
940 Garrison Avenue, Bronx, NY 10474
718-542-4149
Hours:
Monday 11-7; Tuesday 10-6;
Wednesday & Thursday. 11-6; Friday 1-6
Artist's Statement:
I am an African American photographer. During the past five years I have been attempting to document contemporary Urban African and the Diaspora through photographic imagery and prose... I undertake, through my work, the deconstruction of the negative visual imagery which has so much defined the Western view and interpretation of the African continent... It is my ambition to produce provocative photographic interpretations that elaborate and celebrate positive aspects of Black community experience. I am convinced (in the words of bell hooks) that ‘the lives of black people are complex, and are therefore worthy of sophisticated critical analysis and reflection...’ I am trying to use photography as a tool, an instrument, to ‘change the way we as Black people look at ourselves and the world...’ I hope through my work to contribute to our sense of a world community; to help create a world where Blackness, and Black people, can be looked upon with open eyes...
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