Day 3: Willy Ndatira
For Day 3 of the designer and creative consultant's @SHOWstudio takeover in collaboration with designer Hussein Alusch, Willy Ndatira explored the creation of content via appropriation.
They shared Through A Lens Darkly, a vital documentary exploring the role of photography in African American history. Whilst highlighting the agency offered by the medium, the takeover also included work ranging from photographs by Xaviera Simmons to the inaugural cover of The Crisis magazine, founded by W.E.B Du Bois in 1910. Ndatira and Alusch also explored the influence of post-colonial African portraits on contemporary fashion imagery, looking to the likes of photographer Malick Sidibé.
For Day 3 of the designer and creative consultant's @SHOWstudio takeover in collaboration with designer Hussein Alusch, Willy Ndatira explored the creation of content via appropriation.
The first documentary to explore the role of photography in shaping the identity, aspirations, and social emergence of African Americans from slavery to the present. The documentary probes the recesses of American history through images. African Americans historically embraced the medium as a way to subvert popular stereotypes as far back as the civil war era, with Frederick Douglass. When photography as technology became popular it was used against black people and some fought back through the medium.