Stepping before the lush portraits of artist Naima Green’s photo series “Jewels from the Hinterland,” you feel surrounded by the same peaceful greenery that the subjects are embraced by; you feel grounded by their serene and individual sense of self.
“The way that black and brown people are understood as living in cities is usually in hard concrete areas, in desolate or decaying spaces, and I wanted to challenge that representation as the only representation as to where blackness lives in the city, and where black people exist,” Green said by phone on Aug. 27.
