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Black people have been killed for directing their gaze at the wrong person. I want my subjects to reclaim their right to look, to see, to be seen.

Dawoud Bey

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Dawoud Bey
Age: 71
Born: 1953
Born: January 1
Photographer
New York City
New York
Dawood Bey
David Edward Smikle
Black
Persons
Reclaim
Person
Gaze
Look
Directing
Looks
Killed
Right
Subjects
People
Seen
Wrong

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