“I always wanted my photographs to challenge the status quo, to contest the kinds of images that existed in popular culture.” KindWantedCultureChallengesPhotographContestsStatus QuoPopular Culture Author:Dawoud Bey
“While I have devised various formal strategies for articulating [my] concerns, I think fundamentally the work is driven by a basic curiosity. I seek to find out things about people by making photographs of them.” PeopleThinkingConcernStrategyCuriosityPhotographVariousDrivenFormalArticulating Author:Dawoud Bey