AAPGuild - Carl Robert Pope Jr.

takes dark and suspenseful photographs of body parts partially covered by soil. These images achieve their sense of foreboding and mystery not only because of the sinister subject matter, but also because of Pope's use of dramatic contrast, which increases the tension within the compositions.

Courtesy: Reflections in Black: A History of Black Phtographers from 1840 to the Present, by Deborah Willis

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