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Kristina Elise (center) Photogenics La Editorial with Xiox Magazine Triplegoddesss.tumblr.com IG Kristinaxelise

Andy Warhol // Jean-Michel Basquiat // 1985

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Photography by Flip Schulke

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Ice-T | Los Angeles, CA - 1996 | Photo by Chi Modu

The black man is the most feared figure in America and I think the most powerful as well. That’s that’s why there have been so many institutionalized things set in place to disable him. I was terrified to work with a black male figure. The first one I worked with was Langston Hughes and it was before I was being intentional and now I think I’m being more intentional with the things that I’m creating. Tupac was the first man that I worked with that I felt this strong weight to do him justice. Sure, he can be “thug life” but we also know Tupac as a poet, activist, and a multi-faceted human being so I really wanted to do him justice in that way. In that collage, he looks so soft and so introspective. When I saw the photo, I knew. I have a very visceral reaction when I see things. I’ll feel it in my gut and it’s like, “That’s the photo I have to use.” I saw him and the Matisse piece together and how they fit so perfectly and it also shows a black man being cradled by a woman.