Omar Victor Diop, b. 1980Liberty: Universal Chronology of Black ProtestThiaroye, 1944Trayvon Ma
Omar Victor Diop, b. 1980Liberty: Universal Chronology of Black ProtestThiaroye, 1944Trayvon Martin, 2012Alin Sitoe Diatta, 1944Sonacotra, 1974Dutty Boukman, 1791The Free Breakfast Programme, 1945The Freeman Field Mutiny, 1945Nanny and Quao, 1720The Soweto Uprising, 1976Selma, 1965Senegal (2016)[Source], [Source]The National Geographic says:IN DEPICTIONS BY Senegalese artist Omar Victor Diop, the black struggle for freedom is as global as the history of protest yet as personal as each protester’s story.It’s so personal, in fact, that Diop himself plays every male role in the photo series “Liberty,” vignettes he created based on visual and written sources in Africa and the African diaspora. The scenes, set apart by time, geography, and scope, present a vibrant, visual chronology of these consequential events…Diop composed scenes using multiple images of himself—but “the picture would be far from complete if it didn’t feature female characters,” he says. “Black women played a role as important as their male counterparts’ in the struggle.” His friend Khadija Boye poses as all the women in the series.From his vantage in Senegal, Diop designed his latest project to draw a parallel “between the chronology of protest movements on the continent and that of similar movements in the diaspora happening at similar time periods.” He did so, he has said, in hopes of “trying to have a more universal reading of the history of black protest, in order to build bridges for a better understanding of the question.” -- source link
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