“Unveiling Layers of Reality: Can ‘Snapshots’ Redefine the Art of Visual Storytelling?”
Aisha Sabitini Sloan’s piece, “What’s in The Background,” brings the line, “People respond to the body before they respond to the camera,” and speaks boldly about whiteness and blackness. It’s a conversation between the author and her father about Paris and a visual dialogue, what the image proves, or erases.
When one of the last essays, “Girl With Corn,” by Dinty W. Moore, ends with “I hope she is doing well,” I am immediately jarred and recollect a collection of vintage postcards from ancestors in my possession.
