Vogue Runwayさんのインスタグラム写真 - (Vogue RunwayInstagram)「Google the name @LizJohnsonArtur and a number of famous faces will immediately populate your screen—Amy Winehouse, M.I.A., and the like. And yet the true stars in the photographer’s impressive oeuvre, which includes commissions from magazines such as i-D and The Fader, are mostly unknown and unsung. Entitled the “Black Balloon Archive” after the song by soul singer Syl Johnson, her ongoing photo series began in 1991 and is arguably her life’s work. The catalyst for the project came four years prior, when the photographer paid her first visit to New York, landing in Brooklyn at the home of a Russian Jewish family in a predominantly black neighborhood, an experience that would prove life-changing. “Up until that point, the images I’d seen of black people hadn’t answered the simple questions I wanted to know: What it’s like to have a black auntie? What it’s like to go somewhere where the person who bakes the bread is black?” says Johnson Artur, who was born to a Russian mother and Ghanaian father in Bulgaria, then raised in southern Germany by her mother after her parents separated. “That sense of normal was not represented, and that was what I was looking for.” With a new exhibit at the @BrooklynMuseum this month, Johnson Artur brings that creative expedition full circle. Named "Dusha," which means "soul" in Russian, the exhibition explores the connective tissue that binds the African diaspora, with work that spans a broad sweep of Europe, Africa, North America, and Jonson Artur's adopted home of 28 years, London. Tap the link in our bio for more details. Photographed by @lizjohnsonartur」5月19日 1時46分