With the help of a British photographer, a Senegalese self-portraitist visits 1950s and 1960s America for a unique and satirical look at the past.
"Being There," a collaboration between The Anonymous Project and self-portraitist Omar Victor Diop, sees the latter transported back in time and digitally inserted into intimate family photographs from 1950s and 60s America.Conceived by British photographer and filmmaker Lee Shulman and Senegalese artist Diop, the edited photographs examine White privilege during an era when civil rights and segregation fought for the soul of America.
Diop said he was reminded of his father, once an African student in 1950s Europe, and often the only person of color in social situations.Though some of the events taking place in the images are distinctly everyday, Shulman says the fact they were captured by expensive photographic equipment is in itself a marker of class privilege.
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