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Image as Transformation Dawoud Bey was born in 1953 in the borough of Queens, New York City. Now a world-renowned photographer, he first began to develop an interest in images as a teenager, receiving a camera from his godmother in 1968. The following year, he saw  Harlem on My Mind at The Metropolitan Museum of Art – an exhibition widely criticised for its failure to include a significant number of artworks by African Americans.  Bey was inspired to develop a new documentary proj...