Nov 18, 2020
I’ve been thinking of the rural and suburban black communities and how often redlining gets pushed aside during the conversations we are currently having. While Nassau County is no way near as isolating as other regions, systemic racism through zoning is a calculated form of oppression in Long Island, and I wanted to try and capture that isolation.
Miranda Barnes, Photographer, West Hempstead, NY, The New York Times, 2020
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Sources of Self-Regard: Self-Portraits From Black Photographers Reflecting on America ~ Essay by Deborah Willis, June 19, 2020
Miranda Barnes ~ Website
