In conversation with .. 8!
Welcome to our new digital issue: IN CONVERSATION WITH – Part 8! Featuring with Aka Kelzz, Jaume Miró, José Rojas, Wooly and the Uke, Ford Kelly, Olli Hull. Special thanks to Orientation NYC. 118 pages filled with interviews and editorials. Contributors are Lewis Robert Cameron, Johannes Brauner, Arabella Romen, Rianon Vran, Joseph Sy, Arron Dunworth, Alis, McGuire Brown and more. Enjoy our new issue! Feat. @akakelzzmusic @akakelzz @jaumevmiro @jose_illustration @woolyandtheuke @SoyFordKelly @ollihull On the cover Creative Direction & Styling McGuire Brown @mcguire.brown Photographer & Editor Abby Lorenzini @abilorenzini Lighting Assistance Joe DaJour @joedajour Assistance Jane Handorff @jhandorff & Samantha Del Rosal @samanthadelrosal Model Kayinoluwa Ibidapo @kayinoluwa Makeup Tania Mallah @tatimallah Production Orientation NYC @orientationyc
Welcome to our new digital issue: IN CONVERSATION WITH – Part 8! Featuring with Aka Kelzz, Jaume Miró, José Rojas, Wooly and the Uke, Ford Kelly, Olli Hull. Special thanks to Orientation NYC. 118 pages filled with interviews and editorials. Contributors are Lewis Robert Cameron, Johannes Brauner, Arabella Romen, Rianon Vran, Joseph Sy, Arron Dunworth, Alis, McGuire Brown and more. Enjoy our new issue!
Feat. @akakelzzmusic @akakelzz @jaumevmiro @jose_illustration
@woolyandtheuke @SoyFordKelly @ollihull
On the cover
Creative Direction & Styling McGuire Brown @mcguire.brown
Photographer & Editor Abby Lorenzini @abilorenzini
Lighting Assistance Joe DaJour @joedajour
Assistance Jane Handorff @jhandorff & Samantha Del Rosal @samanthadelrosal
Model Kayinoluwa Ibidapo @kayinoluwa
Makeup Tania Mallah @tatimallah
Production Orientation NYC @orientationyc
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I don’t have the luxury<br />
of being able to pick and<br />
choose when or how I’m<br />
seen by the outside world<br />
so these identities become<br />
quite present in my day to<br />
day life. Sometimes my rage<br />
fuels me to keep engaged<br />
sometimes my hope<br />
does the same.<br />
Then last year I set myself a project of<br />
creating a coloring book for a friend which<br />
led me to thinking again about what kind<br />
of Coloring books were available for Black<br />
Kids and Adults and what kind of book I<br />
would have appreciated when growing up.<br />
The past few years there is a lot of new<br />
<strong>conversation</strong> hitting the mainstream,<br />
Black lives matters, colorism, … As a<br />
dark skin person living in Berlin, did you<br />
feel, see any evolution arounds you?<br />
I think it’s mainly going in cycles<br />
and trends. Somehow there are now<br />
more events and discussions around<br />
AntiBlackness, Rest, Rage and Colorism<br />
from groups and Organistations who had<br />
never touched on the topic. It’s almost<br />
like they are catching up <strong>with</strong> the Black<br />
people who have been doing this work<br />
for a longtime. I like that Blackness and<br />
its nuances are framed in the center<br />
and there isn’t room for Blackness to<br />
be a second thought. I love that we see<br />
Blackness in its darkest hues represented more and more here in<br />
Berlin.<br />
What do you wish for the future?<br />
I wish for rest as a means of Black reparations<br />
What other work/artist do you find really inspiring right now?<br />
Iki Yos Piña @ParchitaPower<br />
N.K Jemisin<br />
Nalo Hopkinson<br />
Paul Lewin<br />
Peng Black Girls - Enny feat Amia Brave<br />
Dj Bone Black @dj.bone.black<br />
What is your ultimate goal?<br />
To have a space for Black Queer and Trans people to come together and<br />
rest, dream and create.<br />
Follow<br />
Ford Kelly<br />
@SoyFordKelly<br />
@ theafrofuturistcoloringbook<br />
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