Ilyes Griyeb – Morocco Spatial gorse branches scratched past incidental

gorse branches scratched past incidental stains morphed from inconvenience to involvement

The dog is a friend

The central core of Where the flowers still grow is comprised of portraits of young men

thinkers of the African diaspora

Mark McKnight is a Los Angeles-based artist who has exhibited and published work throughout the United States and in Europe

Ilyes Griyeb – Morocco Spatial gorse branches scratched past incidentalIlyes Griyeb's photographs are the product of a double consciousness, in the manner of W. E. B. Du Bois or Frantz Fanon, thinkers of the African diaspora, who evoke the internal conflict and the dual identity specific to minorities: this impression of always looking at oneself through the eyes of the other (the white man, the colonizer), often tinged with contempt or pity. This internalized fracture provides the photographer with a certain distance,