Shantell Martin
One of my favorite photographs was taken when I was nine years old. I’m standing with my siblings in our apartment in Thamesmead estate, a public-housing complex in Southeast London. I have a little Afro and brown skin, and I’m wearing Michael Jackson-style shorts. Beside me are my very blond and blue-eyed brother and four sisters. I’m drawn to this photo because it reminds me of how often I’ve felt like an outsider—both as a child and later as an adult.
As a kid, I didn’t realize that being an outsider gave me a passport to be different.
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Episode 31: Allison Hueman
Episode 30: Cash Cooper
Thinking out loud! Well on your thoughts on getting started when it’s been awhile?
Episode 28: Keith Mayerson
Episode 27: Joseph Brandon Thomas
Episode 26: Terry Guy
Shantell Sans Launch Neuehouse
Episode 25: Leah King
The Path: A Meditation of Lines, in Times Square
Episode 24: Ave Pildas
Hoboken Mural
Part Five: The Future.
Part Four: Brompton Junction.
Episode 23: Matt Gondek
Part Two: Rockefeller Center.
Episode 22: Jade Catta-Preta
Episode 21: Charles Gaines
Episode 20: Abel Marcias
Episode 19: Harmonia Rosales
Provenance: Cleaning the Studio
Provenance: 029 Whitney Museum, Playing Cards
Provenance: 028 Collaboration with Noah
Provenance: 027 Intimate Whispers
Provenance: 026 My First Book
Episode 18: Estevan Oriol
Provenance: 025 Joya Take a Walk
Episode 17: Rabi
Provenance: 024 Polycade Asteroids
Episode 16: Tommy Mitchell
Provenance: 023 Joya Focus Candle Collaboration