Instagramさんのインスタグラム写真 - (InstagramInstagram)「Artist Benji Reid’s (@benjireid) Afro-futurist self-portraits exist at the intersection of choreography, theatricality and photography.⁣ ⁣ “My work is a celebration of love and fragility told through Black masculinity. It is an offering to onlookers about the world I inhabit, which honors the personal and political victories I have sustained to possess health and well-being,” explains the British artist, whose gravity-defying images can take months to realize and multiple days to shoot.⁣ ⁣ “It is important that Black people have agency over their own narratives, that we disseminate them on our own terms. We need to see ourselves as beautiful Black joy coupled with our uncomfortable Black pain through our own eyes. This must be uncensored and unapologetic.⁣ ⁣ What I have discovered over the years was that personal investigation is a huge playground where one can find moments of self-discovery. I am inspired by the alchemy of the arts, how one can turn despondency into joy, darkness into light, reality into fantasy. My work is part ritual, part photography and part prayer.⁣ ⁣ I want my audience to feel hope... the hope that comes from failures and hard work, hope that comes from being broken and having to find the way to putting yourself back together again. We are here and alive and kicking, and life is worth celebrating no matter how hard it may seem.” ⁣ ⁣ #ThisWeekOnInstagram⁣ ⁣ Photos by @benjireid」11月10日 2時23分