STEPHANIE SEGUINO PHOTOGRAPHY
  • Portfolios
    • Davide
    • Summer of Protests and Calls to Action
    • Support Our Police Meets Cop Watch
    • Burlington Speaks: Race and Policing
    • Racial Oppression on Trial
    • Floating on the Edges
    • The Veil
    • Portraits
    • Interrogating stereotypes
    • New Portraits
    • New Dianas
    • The New China
    • Italy
  • Contact
  • My town, COVID, and me
This project, "Interrogating Stereotypes," began several years ago, when my son, a young black teen, began to feel the impact of negative racial stereotypes in his daily life. As a mother, I cherished his beauty as a human being, and could not grasp how that had suddenly become invisible to the world. I began to photograph him and his friends in earnest to preserve for me and for others the innocence and inner beauty of these young men.

In this work, I have been moved by a question posed by Anthony Kwame Appiah, "What do we owe strangers by virtue of our shared humanity?" I ask that question of the viewer in these photos of black men in my life - young, middle-aged, and old.

The faceless photos serve as an invitation for the viewer to reflect on their own projections onto people they may not know but feel compelled to judge.
All images © 1987 - 2021 Stephanie Seguino