NEW interview by Solange Knowles Saint Heron
INTERVIEW: DAWN RICHARD
BY NIA PORTER | PUBLISHED: FEBRUARY 26, 2015
There is a worn photo album tucked away in a forgotten storage closet in my New Orleans home. The photographs contained within are just as worn, a lot of them water stained behind thin plastic covers—some of the only remnants we managed to save after the hurricane.
Black and white photos of family members from long ago line the first few pages; their likenesses immortalized for generations to come. The black and white photos shift into faded, colored polaroids, getting closer to the present with each turn of the page.
There are only a few photos of my cousin, Dawn Richard that we were able to save. In an earlier photograph, a five-year-old Dawn sits in the grass alongside my older sister, who was just an infant at the time. Her smile is familiar—eyes closed with a teeth-baring grin.
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