The degradation and removal of a/the black male
Wayne Dunkley made posters of his face with the following fill-in-the-blanks under the picture: “A _____” and “The _____”. He put them up in Toronto and Montreal neighbourhoods, and kept track while posters were torn down, covered up, defaced, and written on over a period of four years.
He then took his own stories and combined them with people’s responses to his posters to create Share My World: A Photographic Study on Race and Perception.
“Each response recorded stimuates the viewer to consider their own response to the/a black male [and] to provoke thought on the subtle and not-so-subtle ways in which the black male is acknowledged or ignored.”
There are six books of stories which overwhelmed me with joy, disbelief, sadness, anger and yet ultimately hope. The entire site is well worth exploring, if not a little discomforting.
