Faces of Change

I’m not the hugest fan of Andy Warhol, but I give him credit as an obvious source of inspiration and also that I am a bit bored in my hotel room. But what is my main source of inspiration is the financial, economic and racial winds of change within this country and the global community. These faces also symbolize for me the faces of some on Nov. 5th. Those who are reluctant to change and what would be a wonderful and hopefully healing cultural and racial paradigm shift. How we are all globally related and can so contagiously effect eachother’s experience. But more importantly, sometimes you have to feel the pain before the peace.

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Sabelo Narasimhan

Sabelo is a defunct photography student who spends a lot of time in microeconomics classes and playing tennis these days. A queer immigrant of south Asian decent, Sabelo has spent time on both coasts and can’t decide on which is better. So left both and headed abroad on a 4 week trek east. Using layers and contradiction, reflection and depth, colors and shadows, Sabelo explores the people and places that we move through/around everyday.

Faces

by Olive Demetrius.

This is a small selection of a larger collection of photos involving people from the film U People.

I took these photographs initially because the documentary was an unplanned blessing. We didn’t have stills that really captured the time, place and feeling. We took the time after the fact to bring these people to our home to shoot these photographs. These are dynamic interesting people yet drawing something out of them was more difficult than I expected.

Here are some of the one I like the most.

Tika Milan was a part of U People the movie and was really uncomfortable during this shoot. I felt that I had to draw on the comfort of our long association for the vulnerability of this shot.

C. Sala Hewitt also a subject of U People the film. She is all angles and lips and beautiful eyes in person wrapped around a fierce personality.

“Game Face”
When it is called everyone has one.

“Shapes”
C. Sala Hewitt also a subject of U People the film. She is all angles and lips and beautiful eyes in person wrapped around a fierce personality.

“untitled”
Thanwi Nandini. In the film we focused on her eyes that dominate her face. Her I wanted to give her face a platform to shine from.

“Red Summer”
Named for the smmer of 1919. One of the bloodiest summers of our shared American history. By her name she reminds us of our past while she looks toward our future.

“Anticipate”
It looks like the moments before a kiss.

“Still”
Ayesha Harris was our fabulous femme on set but looks will lead deceive and bring you back to the fact that she is not easily defined. Her face is often joyous and mobile but it is full of depth as well. I tried to capture a small bit here.

“Fallen”
Another side of Ayesha Harris.