I was recently in Israel doing my work and casting for models in the streets of Haifa and Jerusalem and Tel Aviv, meeting young Israelis and Palestinians and Falasha, Ethiopian Jews who had migrated to Israel in the '70s. They're obsessed with Bob Marley. They're obsessed with Kanye West. They're obsessed with resistance culture, people who find that they're not necessarily comfortable in their own personal and national skin.
Kehinde WileyYou'll find that street casting in America is a lot different than street casting in different nations.
Kehinde WileyThe backgrounds by design are a very key part of the conversation, because I want a kind of fight or pressure to exist between the figure and the background.
Kehinde Wiley