†we asked them to generally share any negative feedback they’d overheard about by themselves.’ All photographs by Donna Pinckley Photograph: Donna Pinckley
†we asked them to generally share any negative feedback they’d overheard about by themselves.’ All photographs by Donna Pinckley Photograph: Donna Pinckley
Donna Pinckley’s Sticks and Stones task allows partners who’ve been victims of racial punishment turn their taunts into art
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A couple of the stand by position a flower sleep. Her supply is covered about their waistline like a rose climbing a tree. He rests their cheek at the top of her mind. They stare down the lens, their health pushed together from thigh to neck into the belated afternoon sunlight. “They are disgusting”, reads a caption that is handwritten the image – because jarring as being a stone to a toe.
This shot is just one of United States photographer Donna Pinckley’s series that is ongoing and Stones, which pairs interracial couples with all the abuse they’ve received, often straight, often overheard. A southern woman in your mind (she informs me she lives), Pinckley works in black and white and the couples she depicts include a wide range of ethnicities and sexualities that she could never move further north than Little Rock, Arkansas, where. Continue reading “Love and hate: interracial partners speak out concerning the racism they have faced”