About the Work
Tables Turned (Hotel des Milles Collines) is a photograph of two young African girls taken on Father’s Day in front of la Hotel des Mille Collines, the real hotel made famous in the film Hotel Rwanda, where hero Paul Rusesabagina saved citizens from the Rwandan Genocide. The photograph was unstaged: photographer Ayana V. Jackson was visiting the hotel and asked the two little girls if she could take their picture. Just as Jackson was taking the photograph, the girl on the left raised her own camera, turning the tables: Jackson, an African-American born in New Jersey, was lifting her camera to capture Africa, and Africa turned its own camera back on her.
About the Artist
Ayana V. Jackson is a photographer who seeks to crystallize the experience of contemporary Africa and African diasporic societies. Through a sociological lens, Jackson combines honed technical skills with richly laced historical allusions to create hauntingly candid portraits that depict varying constructions of African and African-American identities. Her intensely focused images bear confrontational subjects that challenge the viewer’s preconceived notions. A descendant of one of the first black families to settle in New Jersey, Jackson is a sensitive observer and capturer of black culture and history.
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Description
Color photograph made with archival pigments on fine art rag paper.Authentication
Includes a Certificate of Authenticity and an artist signed label on verso.Dimensions
This print contains a border as dictated by the artist to allow for framing and the quoted dimensions are for the paper size and not the printed size of the image itself.Shipping
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