Colour, motion, and sweeping, expertly choreographed gestures permeate the works of Arielle Bobb-Willis. The Los Angeles-based photographer blurs the boundaries between artwork and trend imagery, rejecting “the notion that Black expression is limited—or limiting.”
A slim monograph collects 90 of Bobb-Willis’s images, highlighting her distinctive eye and daring, conceptual compositions. Revealed by Aperture, Preserve the Child Alive positions remark and creativeness as helpful instruments to encourage awe for the neglected. Fashions wearing shiny, color-blocked clothes pose in parks or alleyways, their joyful dances and chromatic clothes enriching the nondescript areas.
Bobb-Willis first picked up a digicam at 14 and thru strikes from New York to Aiken, South Carolina, to New Orleans, discovered the medium was each cathartic by persistent melancholy and loss and likewise a necessary software for creating her style and confidence.
“Photography is how I keep my inner child alive. Photography has taught me to fall in love with life,” she shares with Nicole Acheampong in an interview within the ebook, including:
I like discovering surprising rainbows, and sunshine and a good looking inexperienced park and youngsters’ chalk drawings on the sidewalk and melted ice cream and butterflies and flowers and Black women with bright-blue braids and candy graffiti poetry! I maintain my interior baby alive by taking footage of my on daily basis. I’m all the time discovering issues that I’m so in love with. …Images is, and can all the time be, a every day observe of falling in love with as many issues as I can.
Whether or not captured in a Los Angeles car parking zone or in opposition to a purple wall in New Jersey, Bobb-Willis’s pictures are dynamic and vivid, drawing magnificence and enthusiasm from unassuming areas.
Preserve the Child Alive is on the market on Bookshop, and you will discover extra from Bobb-Willis on her web site and Instagram.
