Artist Statement
At the end of 2011 Risk Hazekamp followed the route of the (white) American writer J.H. Griffin, who, in his book ‘Black Like Me’, reports of his travels as a black man (with help of medicine, UV light and make-up) through the Deep South.
From the prologue of ‘Black Like Me’ (1960):
"It is the story of the persecuted, the defrauded, the feared and detested. I could have been a member of any "inferior" group. Only the details would have differed. The story would be the same."
In this sentence Hazekamp saw a clear invitation to other persons of "inferior groups" to follow his example. She projected his subversive idea on the gender theme, and travelled not as a woman, but as a man. She travelled alone, which means that she was as well the photographer as the model.
Process Statement
A series of ± 15 analog black&white photographs and 2 analog color photographs (cross developed negatives).
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