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My Youngins Light Trapping (Copy) My Youngins Light Trapping Digital Photograph 2023 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5521cf48e4b0e06c6a04ed3c/1664238128863-UUZ24JKKOA53P0QWM9QD/0O8A3785.jpeg Fine Art Photography - Dark Spectrum of Dreams (Copy) Dark Spectrum of Dreams Digital Photograph 2022 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5521cf48e4b0e06c6a04ed3c/1693590376109-LGAOCYKJERN4KUQ9PNBJ/image-asset.jpeg Fine Art Photography - Sight Spells & Stories (Copy) Sight Spells & Stories Digital Photograph 2023 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5521cf48e4b0e06c6a04ed3c/1667076270956-46XXG60R3HJX3YYKS701/0O8A7445+copy.jpg Fine Art Photography - Untitled (Copy) Untitled Digital Photograph 2022 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5521cf48e4b0e06c6a04ed3c/1733005162802-TIKEO10P1ZV1RG2M4T8I/image-asset.jpeg Fine Art Photography - Untitled Heart (Copy) Untitled Heart Digital Photograph 2024 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5521cf48e4b0e06c6a04ed3c/1726673023959-ENEQ9F6YX09U1M2F5RTZ/Line+Work.jpg Fine Art Photography - Line Work (Copy) Line Work Digital Photograph 2024 I have a deep appreciation for lines, their essential role in shaping ideas, defining forms, and conveying movement. Capturing the right lines creates a clear, calm moment amid a busy and cluttered mind. "Line Work" focuses on those rare and precious instances when lines, composition, and timing perfectly align to preserve a truly meaningful and lasting memory. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5521cf48e4b0e06c6a04ed3c/1736051059012-CW5HIWS2T01043PYIKXP/_DSF0699.jpg Fine Art Photography - Pilot mountain North Carolina (Copy) Pilot mountain North Carolina Digital Photograph 2025 A tranquil image of a bare tree branch against a clear blue sky, with two birds flying high above and a crescent moon visible. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5521cf48e4b0e06c6a04ed3c/1753279512409-QFS6YG3R9U1TRZFJS2EC/Sometimes+Dead+Things+Make+me+Laugh%2C+Then+I+Eat+Them.jpg Fine Art Photography - Sometimes Dead Things Make me Laugh, Then I Eat Them (Copy) Sometimes Dead Things Make me Laugh, Then I Eat Them Digital Photograph 2024 Captured crossing the Alabama River, this surreal photo shows a taxidermied buck behind the wheel of a white Chevy Z71. It contrasts rural hunting stereotypes with deeper themes, portraying the deer as both victim and driver of its own fate. The shot highlights tensions between progress and nature, exploring mortality, consumption, and humanity's dependence on the environment. Absurd yet profound, it reflects on death, resource use, and Southern identity. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5521cf48e4b0e06c6a04ed3c/1721847028729-WNYBVPWJ662E8ZQNMQY6/0O8A9536-Enhanced-NR.jpg Fine Art Photography - Townsmen of Aboabo, Ghana (Copy) Townsmen of Aboabo, Ghana Digital Photograph 2024 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5521cf48e4b0e06c6a04ed3c/1752551700945-G9P7Y4Y0JZYH3JUAZAEK/Dead+End+%283%29.jpg Fine Art Photography - Dead End (Copy) Dead End Digital Photograph 2023 "Dead End" is a striking fine art photo. This powerful image blends quiet existential irony with everyday realism, inviting reflection on mortality and fate. Focused on contemporary themes, it offers thoughtful, poetic imagery that sparks conversation, exploring human experience and visual storytelling.. http://www.kwakuoseistudios.com/selected-works daily 0.75 2025-08-10 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5521cf48e4b0e06c6a04ed3c/1637942194395-2XEMUD4IV0SCQPY495W4/Osei+Bonsu.JPG Selected Works - Osei Bonsu (Copy) Title: Osei Bonsu Medium: 4c Senegalese Twist, glitter glue, gold glitter, black 2.0, copy paper on Arches watercolor paper Dimensions: 21 .25" x 17.25" Year: 2021 Description: This contemporary diptych, interrogates the politics of ownership and institutional preservation, directly referencing the Asante Ntan Drum currently housed in the Ackland Art Museum at UNC-Chapel Hill. 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By depicting both the front and back of the drum, the diptych serves as a visual critique of how freedom and cultural heritage are compromised when framed by the limitations of a dominant culture. Size: 18 x 12 in Medium: Mixed Year: 2021 2021 © Kwaku Osei https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5521cf48e4b0e06c6a04ed3c/1643820232092-ZT4D6956B78JG41FSABG/Fawohodie%2Bne%2BAya.jpg Selected Works - Fawohodie ne Aya (Copy) Title: Fawohodie ne Aya Medium: 4c Senegalese Twist, rhine stone, graphite, black glitter glue, black 2.0, deconstructed colonial flag reproductions on copy paper, on Arches water color paper Dimensions: 46.5" x 32.5" Year: 2021 Description: Taking its title from the Akan symbol for "Independence and Resilience," Fawohodie ne Aya is a contemporary portrait that examines the deep paradoxes of navigating a "post-colonial world". This work challenges the cognitively restrictive frameworks and ideologies. By grounding the subject’s narrative in Akan proverbs, this depiction transforms the physical surface of the artwork into an active site of cultural reclamation. The piece pushes back against dominant narratives, insisting on the validity and presence of African philosophical structures in contemporary art. Size: 44 x 30 1/4 in Medium: Mixed Year: 2020 2020 © Kwaku Osei https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5521cf48e4b0e06c6a04ed3c/8e17fa11-45d7-4816-a5c1-da060d77fcab/Lewis+and+Judy+House+at+Somerset+Place+State+Historic+Site+copy.jpg Selected Works Title: Lewis and Judy House Medium: Expired Kodak Tri-X 400 Dimensions: N/A Year: 2026 Description: This photograph captures the reconstructed interior of the Lewis and Judy House at Somerset Place. Shot on my Guan-Kyerepon father's expired film, the grainy, dimly lit image centers on a solitary wooden bed, emphasizing the stark realities of enslaved domestic life. These small, 16x16-foot cabins often housed multiple families, creating cramped environments that facilitated the rapid spread of airborne pathogens like influenza and whooping cough. Pregnant enslaved women labored and delivered children within these suffocating walls, relying almost entirely on community midwives. By documenting this space through a deeply personal lens, the work transforms a site of historical medical neglect into a visceral meditation on survival. It links my family's ongoing navigation of health inequities with the enduring trauma and resilience of our ancestors who persevered in these oppressive environments. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5521cf48e4b0e06c6a04ed3c/994cefc2-aa39-4132-a2d4-ec6a1241bd1f/First+Blood+Transfusion.jpg Selected Works Title: First Blood Transfusion Medium: Digital Photography Dimensions: N/A Year: 2024 Description: First Blood Transfusion" explores the lived realities of sickle cell disease, critiquing systemic healthcare disparities while examining biological connections to healing. By documenting the isolating environment of medical treatment, the work challenges how illness is represented and confronts the ongoing failures of medical institutions to equitably serve Black communities. The photograph contrasts the sterile hospital setting with the raw, visceral nature of the blood being administered, emphasizing the tension between clinical detachment and profound human vulnerability. Framed from the perspective of an intimate observer, it bears witness to a life-sustaining process that is simultaneously routine and deeply unsettling. The blood flowing through the IV line serves as a metaphor for lineage, inheritance, and survival. 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The red and white palette underscores themes of presence and erasure, voice and silence, vitality and invisibility. Peeling surfaces and bleeding textures invite deep reflection on the pressures of preserving identity within dominant cultural narratives. 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