Roshini Kempadoo
  Sweetness and Light
1996

Digital photoconstructions output as IRIS inkjet prints.

Courtesy of Muse X Editions, Los Angeles.

  About the work

 

My work is reflective of issues and attitudes that constantly position us as black communities, as black individuals. Colonial history was at its simplest about slavery, genocide, and dominance of one country over another for political, cultural, religious, and above all, economic gain. At the very core of my work is a visual mapping and exploration of stories, place, and environment. Images produced work against and within particular assumptions, histories, and attitudes. As an image producer, I see my work as coming from a documentary photographic tradition. I rework the photographs to produce what I call photo constructions, which are generated using a computer. I make use of photography's unique power to play with notions of reality and representation.”R.K.

1959
born
1984
B.A. West Midland's College of Higher Education, Walsalle, England
1989
M.A. Derbyshire College of Higher Education, Derby, England
 
Image producer, lecturer, Napier University, Scotland; lives in Leicester, England