Everything Remains Raw: Photographic Toronto’s Hip Hop Culture from Analogue to Digital
A photographic excavation of Toronto’s hip hop archive, …Everything Remains Raw draws on photographs of Kardinal Offishall, Michie Mee, Dream Warriors, Maestro, Drake, Director X, and others by Michael Chambers, Sheinina Raj, Demuth Flake, Craig Boyko, Nabil Shash, Patrick Nichols, and Stella Fakiyesi to offer a deep dive in hip hop’s visual culture. An intentional intersection of the taste-making skills of the DJ and the nuanced particularism of the curator, the book and the accompanying exhibition juxtapose never-before-seen images with photojournalism, street posters, and zines to reframe and enhance popular understandings of this thing called hip hop.
Mark V. Campbell is assistant professor and associate chair of Music and Culture in the Department of Arts, Culture and Media at the University of Toronto. His work explores Afrosonic innovations.
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