Rise Up
"I grew up in a society where beauty was defined in terms of Snow White and Marilyn Monroe. Where my hair was an anomaly and my heritage a curiosity. I was called dumb for speaking my mother tongue, laughed at for celebrating my culture and had my home decorated with red spray painted n*****.
Dark girls have to dig deep to find their beauty. And so the magic is not in the black. The magic is in rising in a world that tries to bury you. In soaring though they tried to clip your wings.
#blackgirlmagic"
- Inemesit Essien Graham
Photographed yesterday in Yellowknife, Northwest Territories.
Assisted by: Nathalie Heiberg-Harrison
Studio: Samantha Jordan + Angela Gzowski's Studio 867
Rise Up
"I grew up in a society where beauty was defined in terms of Snow White and Marilyn Monroe. Where my hair was an anomaly and my heritage a curiosity. I was called dumb for speaking my mother tongue, laughed at for celebrating my culture and had my home decorated with red spray painted n*****.
Dark girls have to dig deep to find their beauty. And so the magic is not in the black. The magic is in rising in a world that tries to bury you. In soaring though they tried to clip your wings.
#blackgirlmagic"
- Inemesit Essien Graham
Photographed yesterday in Yellowknife, Northwest Territories.
Assisted by: Nathalie Heiberg-Harrison
Studio: Samantha Jordan + Angela Gzowski's Studio 867