“Being There” came to life when Shulman noticed many of the slides contained an empty seat – presumably that the photographer had vacated to take the photo. Diop’s series “Diaspora” depicts Africans outside of Africa at different points in history (albeit with some contemporary – often soccer related ­­– props). And in doing so, we forget how it’s easy not to make room for someone who’s different,” he added. “He’d been a student in Europe in the late ’50s, so he’d been sitting at these tables,” Diop added. We don’t know their politics, nor how they’d respond to Diop’s presence.

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