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This exhibit is sponsored by Enfoco.
There's information about the two photographers on the Enfoco website: Myra Greene and Sama Alshaibi.
Here are the websites of the photographers: Myra Greene and Sama Alshaibi.
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Confronted with an upswell of bigotry both personal and public, I was forced to ask myself, what do people see when they look at me.
Am I nothing but black?
Is that skin tone enough to describe my nature and expectation in life?
Do my strong teeth make me a strong worker?
Does my character resonate louder than my skin tone?
Using a photographic process linked to the times of ethnographic classification, I repeatedly explore my ethnic features.
The lessons learned are haunting and frightening in these modern times.
Myra Greene in Nueva Luz
My work negotiates the shifts between personal and family history, creating a context to understand the impact of war and exile.
It serves as more than a historical archive and authoritative record.
My work, based on my family's exile, uses the body as a symbol - the retrospective witness that links our present to a time before we were refugees, exiles and "terrorists."
Sama Alshaibi
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