I feel that nowadays with the incredible amount of excellent works out there, we need more projects like this, at the intersection between reality and artistic interpretation, which could – sometimes – be the best way to direct attention on a given topic. This carefully crafted project constitutes a clever multi layered work, where ethics and aesthetics meet in a poetic and commanding way. The team spent five years in the region working closely with the Mbomo community. The project aim to raise awareness on the ecological importance of the Congo Basin, which is the second-largest tropical forest in the world after the Amazon. This beautiful image is part of “Congo Tales”, a collaborative project comprised of Dutch photographer Pieter Henket & Eva Vonk, a Dutch producer. Furthermore the image – as Maddox says – speaks about “the uniqueness and significance of people of colour in a mostly white country”. The composition together with the distinctive use of colors becomes a metaphor that speaks not only about diversity, but also about embracing a more fluid idea of masculinity, away from socially induced stereotypes. Poetic and delicate, not only is its content and subject compelling: the sense for the color and the composition are also extraordinary. Marcus Maddox image brilliantly succeeds in striking the perfect balance between ethics on one side and aesthetics on the other.
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