2026-04-20 17:21 UTC
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I have been thinking about what that means for how I make images.
Within photography, black, brown, and mixed-race bodies are often placed within landscapes to signify identity, presence and belonging. While such images have been important and have opened important conversations about visibility, they often remain symbolic: the body appears within the image usually centrally in the frame, but the forces that shape it remain outside the frame. Unrecognised, unknown.
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@kristiedegaris@mastodon.scot 2026-04-20 17:22
3/ I've been thinking about how to move beyond a visual narrative that keeps asking the same questions, or making the same statements about belonging. The forces that shape us are absent, their consequences are absent. Environmental forces act on a body regardless of whether that body is welcomed or recognised as belonging. That is where I want to make work.