To prepare for this portrait, Shannon LaNier donned a black coat and wrapped a thick, layered collar around his neck, a suit matching the one worn by Thomas Jefferson in the famous 18th century painting. The Houston news anchor was featured in an ongoing series by British photographer Drew Gardner. The series recreates photographs, paintings and other images of historical figures with the help of their descendants. Lanier's photograph is particularly significant because he is the sixth generation grandson of Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemings, the slave of the third president of the United States, whom he forced to bear his children.
After years of living in Morocco, Algeria and Egypt, Manuel Alvarez Diestro dedicated a new series of photographs to North African architecture.
In particular, the satellite dishes that inhabit buildings. Sticking to facades or located on the roofs of buildings, plates add an extra layer to urban buildings. They are like parasitic living creatures that have attached themselves to structures.
