The color purple is often associated with royalty, nobility, luxury, power, and ambition. Purple also represents meanings of wealth, extravagance, creativity, wisdom, dignity, grandeur, devotion, peace, pride, mystery, independence, and magic. I used it as a background for each subject to show that despite the oppression that our ancestors experienced we, as a culture have taken back our individuality and peace and pride. Each shade of the African American community is scrutinized, from dark…

A photographer named Peter Frunch watched commuters for nine years and photographed people without their knowledge. I, for one, had no idea this was a legal thing a person could do. In doing this work however he took some astonishing and detailed pictures of the sane people taken on different days. Each day he was able to observe their differing moods, and outfits each day. Teju Cole focuses on how…

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