It's odd. Though I've spent years working with and creating images, I feel most comfortable expressing myself through writing. I'd been in denial about this for many years. At school I was highly lauded as having the potential to write… — Michael Salu Copy Share
One Negro meeting another at an all-white cocktail party cannot but wonder how the other got there. The question is: Is he for real?… — Michael Salu Copy Share Image
Though I've spent years working with and creating images, I feel most comfortable expressing myself through writing. — Michael Salu Copy Share Image
It's odd. Though I've spent years working with and creating images, I feel most comfortable expressing myself through writing. I'd been in denial about this for many years. At school I was highly lauded as having the potential to write one day, but being a typically rebellious and misguided teenager I opted to study art. Ironically language has pervaded all… — Michael Salu Copy Share
You may change your profile picture to Trayvon Martin or Eric Garner, but you will never actually walk the streets the way they have, or systematically had your vertebrae stunted. So you will not walk that shrouded walk unless you're on the inside and you can occasionally nod at another on the inside and that acknowledgement can carry you for… — Michael Salu Copy Share
Amazingly, my first project at Granta was the Sex issue. Given my own proclivity for the nuances of hedonistic and sexual exploration, partly through art, it was a perfect way to start. I love to interrogate through image - or pose questions through a subversion of said image - and we came up with a visual that caused quite a… — Michael Salu Copy Share
Through panel moderations and talks around culture, politics and identity I gradually gained opportunities to write in my own voice and not that of… — Michael Salu Copy Share Image
Alliances, in the great cocktail party of the white man's world, are formed, almost purely, on this basis, for of both of you can… — Michael Salu Copy Share Image
I realize after spending so long working with images, semiotic deconstruction and redeployment becomes second nature. We all speak with images. I guess I… — Michael Salu Copy Share Image
Artists are often having very similar conversations across the various disciplines through which they choose to excel, but you rarely see them exist in… — Michael Salu Copy Share Image
I'm interested in a lot of the languages that drive our culture. I'm interested in user experience as language or how societal malaise takes… — Michael Salu Copy Share Image
I was keen to challenge this vernacular as the role of the photojournalist was changing, and images were becoming urgent and more succinctly linguistic.… — Michael Salu Copy Share Image
