Turning the tables a bit, photographer Myra Greene who is black set out to capture the essence of whiteness through photography. She explains,
Being asked to be in a photograph because of race has happened many times in my life.
I don’t think a lot of white people have been asked to do something because of their racial identity.
So she worked with a bunch of Caucasian acquaintances to create a series of photos of white people that captured their whiteness. This is, of course, a relatively futile endeavor…which is sort of the point.
The photos, compiled in her book My White Friends, might seem perfectly ordinary, but now that you know the motivation behind them, they are both funny and intriguing…
