Clement Cooper

DEEP explores the contentious issue surrounding mixed-race identity through image & oral testimony. From 1992 to 1997, Cooper journeyed to and lived in four transatlantic seaports: Toxteth, Liverpool;St Paul's, Bristol;Cardiff; Moss Side, Manchester.

Using only natural light and shooting on medium format, Cooper explored the psychological possibilities of portraiture to reveal a powerful and moving body of work, the first of its kind in the UK.

From a personal perspective, Cooper was particularly keen to stress that behind all notions, concepts and constructs of racial stereotyping there lies one unarguable fact: that there is no such thing as race. Only the human race.

DEEP celebrates this truth by revealing the common humanity of all those photographed explicitly.

A humanity that unites us all regardless.


Clement Cooper appears in:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b016bjdb

DEEP People of mixed-race

Book ISBN: 1 872771 25 4