The project is about documenting the African culture, beauty and fashion. It’s a project with a good friend and stylist Bryan Emry and we collaborate with fashion designers to shoot creatively. It is about documenting the beauty of being black. We have grown up believing that being beautiful is being light skin and women keep trying to make themselves lighter to conform to the perceptions in society.
Delphine Diallo est photographe, française, sénégalaise mais femme avant tout. Elle vit à New York depuis dix ans, et nous nous sommes rencontrées avant qu’elle s’envole pour la France où elle présentait sa dernière exposition, « Symbole Invisible », aux Rencontres de la Photographie d’Arles. Deux heures de discussion avec Delphine Diallo, c’est comme casser des barrières à bras le corps. Ce sont les barrières liées à l’identité, au sexe, ce sont les ailes des femmes que l’on coupe..
Anita Kevin is a South Sudanese and Ugandan model. I first met her in 2016 as a curator bringing female visual artists and performers together at exhibitions hosted by her platform Okuki. The platform, which also hosted panel discussions for these artists, has grown to include a website to host similar content that reaches a wider audience through the site and social media. As someone who is open to the continual expansion of her knowledge, it’s no surprise that she took up an offer to learn how to DJ.
