Zora J Murff is using photography as a tool for liberation
service aimed to provide an alternative to incarceration. In reflecting on the overwhelming social and structural forces driving many of the kids he worked with into the juvenile and criminal justice systems, he began to reconsider his role, using the camera as a tool for introspection.
From 2013 to 2015, he photographed portraits of the children he’d worked with, ultimately resulting in“Those were the very early beginnings of me figuring out how I express my ideas,” Zora says, explaining that he soon began to look at photography itself as a function of larger systems, especially in the ways it influences and complicates how we think about race and Blackness.
This inquiry — exploring contexts outside the frame that inform what we see within it — led Zora to the MFA studio art program at University of Nebraska-Lincoln. Melding the use of, archival research and ready-made sculptures, he held onto the most generative aspects of the training he’d absorbed in social services. “Those jobs were all about learning how to de-center yourself to help others. That sort of attitude and mindset is something that has always been important to me,” he says.
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