RaMell Ross

Pleasure is all mine.

Pleasure is all mine.

I'm just interested in Black subjectivity as it relates to the image. And when you consider the historic use of the camera and the Black community, us not making the images, those images that are made by people who are outside of our family coming from a certain directional ideology that's tied to Enlightenment era thinking about inferiority of other races.

I'm just interested in Black subjectivity as it relates to the image. And when you consider the historic use of the camera and the Black community, us not making the images, those images that are made by people who are outside of our family coming from a certain directional ideology that's tied to Enlightenment era thinking about inferiority of other races.

I'm just interested in Black subjectivity as it relates to the image. And when you consider the historic use of the camera and the Black community, us not making the images, those images that are made by people who are outside of our family coming from a certain directional ideology that's tied to Enlightenment era thinking about inferiority of other races.

you have to confront what is the consequences of all of the images of black people that are spread across the world having not been made by our family members? Like what if every photo that was ever taken by every person that's ever been disseminated was made by someone who had a deep, close relationship to them, right? If I asked you for a photograph of your mother, you're gonna find a good one.

you have to confront what is the consequences of all of the images of black people that are spread across the world having not been made by our family members? Like what if every photo that was ever taken by every person that's ever been disseminated was made by someone who had a deep, close relationship to them, right? If I asked you for a photograph of your mother, you're gonna find a good one.

you have to confront what is the consequences of all of the images of black people that are spread across the world having not been made by our family members? Like what if every photo that was ever taken by every person that's ever been disseminated was made by someone who had a deep, close relationship to them, right? If I asked you for a photograph of your mother, you're gonna find a good one.

And then you're also gonna talk about it. There's no way you're just gonna let it float around.

And then you're also gonna talk about it. There's no way you're just gonna let it float around.

And then you're also gonna talk about it. There's no way you're just gonna let it float around.

Right. But our images have been not only decontextualized from our own versions of ourself, but recontextualized in a nefarious view. And not always, of course, but for the most part.

Right. But our images have been not only decontextualized from our own versions of ourself, but recontextualized in a nefarious view. And not always, of course, but for the most part.

Right. But our images have been not only decontextualized from our own versions of ourself, but recontextualized in a nefarious view. And not always, of course, but for the most part.

Yeah, I think it's as much that it is first person and that it's first person made by someone who deeply identifies with the character which they're giving first person, right? Like that entryway into the image allows for my subjectivity and the way in which I view us, the way in which Jomo views us.

Yeah, I think it's as much that it is first person and that it's first person made by someone who deeply identifies with the character which they're giving first person, right? Like that entryway into the image allows for my subjectivity and the way in which I view us, the way in which Jomo views us.

Yeah, I think it's as much that it is first person and that it's first person made by someone who deeply identifies with the character which they're giving first person, right? Like that entryway into the image allows for my subjectivity and the way in which I view us, the way in which Jomo views us.

Yeah, Jomo's a G for sure.

Yeah, Jomo's a G for sure.

Yeah, Jomo's a G for sure.