This is a concentration that I decided to do once I came to Indiana University. I noticed myself in a light that I had never seen before. I woke up every day and the first thing I noticed was my blackness. Being in a white-dominated school made me notice things about my blackness that I didn't before in a city like Indianapolis, with a large black population. I realized that I am black, I am the minority, and I won't be taken seriously. I know what styles of my hair people compliment and appreciate, then there is my natural hair. This series shows the emotions that tie to my blackness, hair, and my perception of myself through the lens of a black woman in a white-dominated space.
This is a series of images that I have done in my photography studio class that focus on many ideologies surrounding male gaze, commodification of women in art, videogames' effects on children, and self perception as a black woman.