Artist Zun Lee’s lost Polaroids show the spirit of the Black diaspora

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Toronto artist Zun Lee was visiting Detroit when he found a handful of Polaroid photos lying on the ground. He asked neighbours who they might belong to, but people shrugged and told him you often saw abandoned belongings in those parts.

A decade ago,

The 600 images on display range literally from birth to death, including a preemie’s first days in hospital and a man lying in his coffin, and everything in between with multiple pictures of proud parents, posturing buddies and smiling sweethearts. Their scale and scope as they fan out across the gallery is impressive, but if you want to hone in on the details of individual images there is also a slide show playing in an adjacent room.

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I find it a bit weird that an artist is using other people's photos without their knowledge or permission. Sure they were found photos, possibly tossed away but how is this different from using lost bank statements or income tax statements or insurance claims?

That is how Lee began to collect the lost family snapshots of African-Americans, buying Polaroids and Kodamatic instant prints, so favoured from the 1960s to the 80s, at yard sales or online.

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