Photography by @johncedmonds 📷 There are many ways you could describe my work, but most often my practice considers classical notions of beauty and desire with people from everyday encounters—friends, acquaintances, lovers and strangers. I love art history and anthropology so at times there is a nod to artistic movements. My current in-progress series, Tribe (2018), thinks about picture making as an act of beautification. I collaborated with a hairstylist to wave the hair of a group of models I worked with. It’s like each person is a God that rose from underneath the Du-Rags series, made in 2017. In ‘Tribe’, I am interested in how the act of beautification, or the process in which one goes through to become "beautiful", is thought of as a ritual. At the heart of all my work there is close attention to care as love, preservation as protection and beauty as a form of power. * Image: Untitled (Head 1), 2018 From the Series ‘Tribe’ . . #supportblackart #johnedmonds #tribe #beauty #art #photography #photographerslife #durrag #artseries #photoseries #process #artislife #artistic #blackbeauty #blackisbeautiful #power #artstagram #artofvisuals
