Carrie Mae Weems

Carrie Mae Weems

Carrie Mae Weems uses text, fabric, audio, digital images and instillation video when creating, but she is known for being a photographer with impeccable story telling skills, with the ability to tell a story through her pictures. Her style of art is influenced by history, specifically black history. She shoots photos of people reenacting major mild stones in our history. Politics, sexism and personal identity are also displayed in her work. She scrutinizes every event just to make sure she is portraying the story right.  As a young child she wanted to know more about herself, her voice. These are things that intrigued her. Carrie Mae Weems has a huge family of 300 plus members that influence her art as well. A lot of her photos are just memories of growing up black. This is something everyone wouldn’t be able to relate to, that’s what makes it so beautiful. Carrie is allowing people to enter her world. Carrie Mae is an artist who wants to keep the past very much present and I think people could appreciate that.