Sierra Leone-born stylist Ib Kamara helps revive London-based retailer Browns’ April initiative “Family Affair.”
Browns says Kamara has succeeded in capturing “a portrait of the future as it should be” by creating imagery that celebrates “future, community, beauty, and Blackness,” doing guest-editing, styling, and shooting the latest series of photos for the retailer.
A dozen of young Black people were photographed in pieces from JW Anderson, Alexander McQueen, Jacquemus, Martine Rose, Off-White™, and even headpieces from Ib Kamara himself.
Kamara stated: “For every contributor I shot, I wanted them to feel their most beautiful; their most comfortable and most importantly, to let them speak to the camera. After all, with all that we have collectively gone through, there are so many questions I can ask. This project felt like a community of people coming together to have a celebration, to reconnect, and to find a middle ground for love and acceptance. To re-tie the beautiful bond we all have and share.”
Browns added, “When we launched ‘Family Affair’, our aim was to champion our creative communities in the times we need one another the most. Ib’s work is a true testament to this goal. It is thus timely that in the midst of this project’s execution, we witnessed the dawn of the largest civil rights movement in recent history;”