THE BASEMENT SOCIETY
A series of photographs of an imagined “members only” club. Each member of this club is of different ethnic and racial backgrounds, creating an analogy of America’s melting pot. Photographed in a studio with stylized lighting the images invoke the essence of cool and the sexiness of a fashion magazine layout. The use of props, costuming and staging composes a conceptual narrative as an allegory of institutional racism that permeates in a coded way through pop culture, media and society.
