![]() ![]() ![]() People perceive you as either black or white, and you’re not – you’re mixed.” “But there’s still a lot of ignorance in society. “On the one hand it allows you to develop a different understanding of the world,” she says of her duality. Born in the UK, she spent most of the first 23 years of her life in Accra and Amsterdam, shuttling between cities and cultures, an experience she found enlightening but problematic. Attoh is half-Dutch on her mother’s side, half-Ghanaian on her father’s, and identifies as mixed-race. L ast year the photographer Tenee Attoh began taking portraits of multiracial friends and acquaintances against a mottled black background at the Bussey Building in Peckham, southeast London.
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