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b. 1977
Ayana V. Jackson (born May 14, 1977) is an American photographer and filmmaker.
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I think early photography is complicit in building the barriers that keep us apart,And it has the potential to help destroy them.
There are many religious mythologies all over the world.
We are living in a Eurocentric era that has promoted Eurocentric ideas of beauty, civilisation, education and religion.
In other cases, I am inventing characters that might live in the fictional land of Drexciya at the bottom of the Atlantic.
Many people have suffered from having their identities disgraced through a racist colonial gaze.
I mine 18th and 19th century Western art and early photographs for content.
I only spent three semesters as an unenrolled student, but if you look at Katharina’s work, you can see her fingerprint all over me.
At the time of its making, I felt that both sets of reference imagery fell outside the general perception of 19th and 20th century black womanhood.
At the time that I made Archival Impulse and Maria di Latte, I was preoccupied with the way that the history of photography is intertwined in the construction and perpetuation of racialized and gendered stereotypes.
Due to the racially divided history of the country I was born in, the presence of my body in certain spaces is problematized and in some cases not welcome unless it performs in a certain way.
This is a work rooted in speculative fiction, In some cases, the characters bring forth characteristics associated with Coastal African water spirits that continue to be revered in present day African and African Diaspora communities.