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We are living in a Eurocentric era that has promoted Eurocentric ideas of beauty, civilisation, education and religion.

— Ayana V. Jackson

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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.

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.

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