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  • Through her photography-based art, Tawny Chatmon (b. 1979, Tokyo, Japan) addresses racist myths and elevates cultural truths. She centers and celebrates Black childhood and family bonds while also recontextualizing dehumanizing dolls, figurines, and food histories. Chatmon intensifies and embellishes her large-scale photographs through both digital techniques and meticulous handmade elements. She elongates the bodies of her models, heightens their features, and adds mosaic-like and embroidered patterns. Presenting these powerful works in ornate frames, Chatmon honors the preciousness of her subjects.

    A person with dark skin tone in a black-and-gold ornate dress with gold chain details wears a wide-brimmed hat decorated with gold fringe and plants, obscuring their eyes. The background shows a cloudy sky.

    Tawny Chatmon, Not Your Blackamoor, from the series “The Restoration,” 2025; Cowrie shells, acrylic, and thread on archival pigment print, 38 x 36 in.; Courtesy of the artist and Galerie Myrtis