Renell Medrano embraces her Dominican roots in a nostalgic photo series 🇩🇴 See more:
. This time around, she embarked on a more personal journey to explore the cultural heritage that formed her, and pay homage to her parents’ home.
She compares the way she went about capturing the series to a walk in the park -- observing beautiful details and tableaux through the lens of her camera: “I got up every day, walked around to scout people I connected with, and just let things run their course.” Renell is part of a new generation of young image makers of colour that use a type of fashion-meets-documentary photography to discuss social or political themes that are personal to them. Take, for example, who places his black, predominantly male subjects in a utopian, carefree world.
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