Stranger Fruit back is a photography series which is started by a famous artist named Jon Henry. He began this amazing photography project in 2014. Jon Henry began this project as an objection to senseless police killings of black people.
Photographer captured the different posture of real black mothers such as standing, kneeling, sitting, with their lifeless sons. The special case of this photoshoot is he posting these photographs in their own environment. In these photos, they show how it feels like to lose their own sons. All the black mothers who are in those photos feel alone and empty.
protesters finished their protest and all of the media is gone around from them. mothers are suffering always from the scene which haunts them. from this photoshoot, all black mothers get a huge message of what happened to them at any moment of their lives.
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Hon Henry who is the photographer of this huge shoot visited too many locations including North Minneapolis to street corners in Jersey City. He chose different areas which describe the architectural and geographical point of view.
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Jon Henry staged them with what they are comfortable wearing. As well as it helped a lot to get the closest and natural feelings. They all are not professional actors in a film. They are normal and real lives that really consider these problems.
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Finally, the photographer fulfilled his purpose what he must want to tell all over the world. He shot these photos to appeal more directly to the audience by using black mothers’ pose deadpan. If you see these photographs you can feel how they look directly at your eyes. They asked the whole world how do they feel about this situation.
So Jon Henry made his own decision of black mothers’ feelings about this situation with an amazing photoshoot like this.