Photo Project

  

I chose this set of photos because race is a very charged subject that always causes opposition, but it is an opposition that needs to be addressed. The pieces all start on different sides of the board, but as the game progresses, they all are given the chance to move closer together. But even as they move closer together there is conflict, and that conflict causes pieces to topple. The power of photography, in this case, is that the frame restricts the full scope of the game by showing only individual pieces. The white pieces may appear to be in power in the final photograph, but that is only because the frame zooms in on the one instance that the black pieces are shown in a state of weakness. It is only when we pull back the frame that we find that that weakness is not a representation of the whole board, and that race is not a game where one “side” is put into checkmate.