Reclaiming What Remains: Tokie Rome- Taylor

Tokie Rome Taylor is a photographer, interested in ethnography, identity, and representation. Rome’s multimedia practice is grounded in the understanding that one’s self-perception and sense of belonging in a society begins in childhood. Children are the subjects she uses to speak of a sense of belonging. These images of black and brown children re-examine history and tradition, through photographic portraits that counter the propaganda of inaccurate stereotypical, subjugated, and inferior historical depictions of people of color. They represent a visual elevation that had been omitted from mainstream "Western history".