"Othering" - as seen through Wing Young Huie and Margaret Atwood
Huie, Wing Y. David and Lou. 2012. Minneapolis, MN. www.know.wingyounghuie.com. Accessed 20 September 2018. Wing Young Huie is an American photographer based in Duluth, Minnesota. His most known projects have taken place in Saint Paul and Lake Street corridor in Minneapolis. The chosen photograph titled David and Lou was taken in South Minneapolis in 2012. Looking at the image we see two men sitting on a porch. Their composure is casual, and it seems that they are having a conversation as friends. David and Lou is part of Wing Young Huie's project, We are the Other . In this series of photographs, Huie captures the cultural landscape of America, revealing what is hidden and what is in plain sight. The photographs, such as this one, present the ways people are mirrored culturally, and the "them" who make up "us". In Huie's description of David and Lou , it is disclosed that the two men are "brothers from another mother", who met when one of t...