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The artist portrays a black family as ‘upper middle class’ at the beginning of the 20th Century. A social paradise or an oppressive prison, a story of condescension or hope? Olafs photographs and video are inspired by photos by Frances Benjamin Johnston, who portrayed young black American students in 1899. The clean aesthetics of her photos seem to promise a better future for the students, but can also be seen as condescending.