Coloration, motion and spectacular, expertly choreographed gestures permeate the works of Arielle Bobb-Willis. The Los Angeles-based photographer blurs the traces between artwork and style imagery, rejecting “the notion that black expression is restricted — or limiting.”
A slim monograph collects 90 of Bobb-Willis' pictures, highlighting her distinctive eye and daring conceptual compositions. Printed by Aperture, Maintain the kid alive it positions remark and creativeness as helpful instruments to encourage admiration for the ignored. Fashions wearing brilliant, color-blocked garments pose in parks or alleys, their joyful dances and chromatic clothes enriching nondescript areas.
Bobb-Willis first picked up a digital camera at age 14, and by shifting from New York to Aiken, South Carolina, to New Orleans, discovered the medium each cathartic by persistent despair and loss and an important software for creating style and self-confidence.
“Images is how I maintain my inside little one alive. Images taught me to fall in love with life,” she shares with Nicole Acheampong in a e book interview, including:
I really like discovering surprising rainbows and sunshine and a fantastic inexperienced park and kids's chalk drawings on the sidewalk and melted ice cream and butterflies and flowers and black ladies with brilliant blue braids and candy graffiti poetry! I maintain my inside little one alive by taking footage of myself every single day. I all the time discover issues that I’m so in love with. …Images is, and all the time will probably be, a every day observe of falling in love with as many issues as I can.
Whether or not captured in a Los Angeles car parking zone or subsequent to a purple wall in New Jersey, Bobb-Willis' photographs are dynamic and vivid, drawing magnificence and enthusiasm from modest areas.
Maintain the kid alive is obtainable on Bookshop and you’ll find extra from Bobb-Willis on her web site and Instagram.
