Time - USA (2021-03-01)

JON HENRY

38 • Poignant perspective

In visual artist Jon Henry’s se-

ries Stranger Fruit, sons pose

with their mothers as if they

are lifeless, re-creating scenes

of mourning. The mothers stare

through the camera’s lens, as

if holding onlookers account-

able for threats their sons could

one day face. In 2020—after

the killing of George Floyd by

police —the series took on new

poignancy. In his final moments,

Floyd, whose death sparked

protests across the U.S., called

out for his mother. Henry—

who last year won the presti-

gious Arnold Newman Prize for

New Directions in Photographic

Portraiture —says he hopes to

represent the long-term pain

of police violence: “When these

tragedies happen over and over

again, we see the families, the

protesters, all this media cover-

age, but after all of that is gone

the families and the mothers are

forgotten.” —Josiah Bates

ANITTA

27 • Sparking hope

BY J BALVIN

I always knew Brazil had a queen in

Anitta. We have a lot in common—like

me, she’s self-made. We met on Insta-

gram and started talking, and I realized

we share another quality: we don’t let

anyone else do our jobs. We like to do

everything ourselves.

Anitta’s a true hustler who turned

her movement into an empire. She took

the sound of Brazil—funk music, which

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