Nsenga Knight 2007, As the Veil Turns: Ashura (Inner Gaze), 35mm Black and White Photography/ Archival Pigment Print, 20 x 30 inches
Nsenga Knight’s Black and White fine art photograph As the Veil Turns: Ashura (Inner Gaze) depicts and an African American Muslim woman wearing hijab. Her head is down, eyes closed and she is making zhikr. This photo is from artist Nsenga Knight’s As the Veil Turns series which utilizes photography, video and oral history to document Black women in her Brooklyn mosque community who converted to Islam prior to 1975 and founded some of New York’s oldest still-existing Muslim communities. You can see more about this project here on her website: https://atomic-temporary-23566187.wpcomstaging.com/our-portfolio/as-the-veil-turns/
Photos from the As the Veil Turns series are available to purchase here: https://atomic-temporary-23566187.wpcomstaging.com/artwork-for-sale/