The Thinker | Naked colour: skin as artefact - Limited Edition of 25 Photograph

Study for art research project Identikit I am a caucasian arab and have always felt people's bias as soon as they hear my last name, Abouzeid. While complaining to my Senegalese friend, Alex, he laughed and said how lucky I was. "If you don't introduce yourself, nobody knows. I walk in the door and the first thing they notice is my colour as if I was naked before them." We discussed this for hours and I realised just how right he was. Before me sat an MMA champion, university graduate, entrepreneur and truly peaceful soul. Yet more often than not when I heard others describing him, the first word out of their mouths was 'black'. Everything he identified with was secondary to his naked colour, not even his heritage of "African" or "Senegalese" which would have obviously hinted at his colour but also his culture. I had always discounted this as a simple way to describe him but later realised it was like stripping him naked. Together we decided to create this series as a metaphor for his experience and how it binds his identity. This is not a series about past slavery but about how bias can enslave our own minds and the people to which we direct it. Model: Alex Shot in Florence, Italy

Photography:C-type on Paper

Artist Produced Limited Edition of:25

Size:19.7 W x 19.7 H x 0.4 D in

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