{"id":8365,"date":"2020-12-15T14:45:28","date_gmt":"2020-12-15T07:45:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kathmanduphotobkk.com\/?p=8365"},"modified":"2024-02-21T15:17:22","modified_gmt":"2024-02-21T08:17:22","slug":"future-you-dont-have-to-be-black-to-be-outraged-justin-mills","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kathmanduphotobkk.com\/?p=8365","title":{"rendered":"You Don\u2019t Have to be Black to be Outraged \/ Justin Mills"},"content":{"rendered":"

Kathmandu Photo Gallery <\/em><\/p>\n

proudly presents<\/em><\/p>\n

\u2018You Don\u2019t Have to be Black to be Outraged\u2019<\/em><\/strong><\/h1>\n

A photographic exhibition by<\/p>\n

Justin Mills<\/strong><\/p>\n

24 April \u2013 28 December 2021<\/p>\n

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George Floyd\u2019s ghastly death on 25 May 2020 at the hand of white police officers in Minneapolis ignited another round of protests against racism and police brutality under the banner \u2018Black Lives Matter\u2019, which spread to over sixty countries across the globe.<\/p>\n

British artistJustin Mills<\/strong>lives in Bangkok, far from the street where Derek Chauvin\u2019s knees suffocated George Floyd, but as a fellow human being and a white man with a conscience and longing for justice and equality, he felt he could no longer stand silently by.<\/p>\n

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\u2018You don\u2019t have to be black to be outraged\u2019<\/em>is a series of photo montages from four American anti-racist movies: \u2018Do the Right Thing\u2019 (dir. Spike Lee, 1989); \u2018Selma\u2019 (dir. Ava DuVernay, 2014); \u2018Moonlight\u2019 (dir. Barry Jenkins, 2016); \u2018I Am Not Your Negro\u2019 (dir. Raoul Peck, 2016), capturing key moments along with their English subtitles and turning them black and white.<\/p>\n

Mills\u2019 choice of black and white not only reflects the colour issue, but by dividing the image in two, with normal positive print on one side and negative on the other, he also emphasises their complementary quality to highlight the fact that each opposite exists because of the other. There is no white without black and vice versa. This is the scientific fact of photography and of the real world.<\/p>\n

Justin Mills <\/strong>(b. 1964) graduated from India\u2019s legendary Santiniketan with a Master in Fine Arts in 1994 and has been a resident of Thailand since 1996. While painting has long been his primary discipline, photography is another medium he uses to express himself.<\/p>\n

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