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MacKenzie became interested in photography through his mother and began taking photos eight years ago after a friend gave him a camera as a gift. Asheville-based photographer brings exhibition to campus One of MacKenzie’s photographs hangs in the Intercultural Center in Highsmith Student Union. SARAH SHADBURNE Arts & Features sshadbur@unca.edu Micah MacKenzie peers into the center of his subject’s soul with a sin gle glass eye and evaluates its contents, taking a valuable life lesson as he goes. With a simple elick, he captures it on his Nikon. Asheville-based photogra pher MacKenzie showcases some of these souls with the photography ex hibition An Expose of Fashion, as part of Blaek History Month at UNC Ashe ville. When recalling the shooting process of An Expose of Fashion, MacKenzie summoned the glittering gold image of Beyonce in her recent performance at the 2017 Grammy’s. “That’s what showed up for my shoot,’’ MacKenzie said. “Black god desses.” An Expose of Fashion features black models from Asheville — eight women and two men — highlighting the vari ous contributions made by black peo ple to the history and culture of Ashe ville, while wearing boldly colored outfits to depiet the modem African in urban Asheville, according to his artist statement. “When I put out a call for all black models, I got a lot of hits from males and females. But as you can see, only the females showed up,” MacKenzie said, gesturing to all but two photo graphs. “The males didn’t show up, and I’m noticing with everything going on right now, women are standing up and trying to show us men how to con stantly be there and be present.” MacKenzie emphasizes vibrant col ors and the juxtapositions of such col ors meshing well together in this proj ect. He cites the aesthetic of a Vogue Africa look coming out spearheaded by the up-and-coming rapper Young Paris as an inspiring force. “He dresses in this very beautiful, vibrant Afriean and at the same time Arherican, New York street-style fash ion that I think is just absolutely beau tiful,” MacKenzie said. “He walks around every day with his faee paint ed.” MacKenzie expresses his exaspera- CONTINUED ON PAGE 20
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