Street Portraits by Bey Dawoud Estera Knaap Combining carefully crafted large-format photographs

Combining carefully crafted large-format photographs with more impulsive documentary photographs

inspired by a childhood gift of The Mutiny on The Bounty and a desire to capture the island’s fragility on expiring analogue film

Photographs taken in rural Texas

Natasha Christia

Using the old printing technique of ‘orotone’ and working with small sizes

Street Portraits by Bey Dawoud Estera Knaap Combining carefully crafted large-format photographsSigned copies From 1988 to 1991 Dawoud Bey made a series of portraits of African Americans in the streets of various American cities. Using a large format tripod mounted camera and a unique positive negative Polaroid film that created both an instant print and a reusable negative, he asked a cross section of the populations of these communities to pose for him, creating a space of self presentation and performance in the streets of the urban