Photography series · 2015
Mama’s Clothes
Portraits created using her late mother Alma’s clothing, using her own body to make absence visible and conjure her mother’s presence.

Keisha Scarville is a visual artist and photographer whose work explores family, memory, and Black identity.
Career
Photography
Origin / Ethnicity / Heritage
Guyanese, Caribbean
Additional Languages
English
Pronouns
She/Her
Photography series · 2015
Portraits created using her late mother Alma’s clothing, using her own body to make absence visible and conjure her mother’s presence.
Photography series · 2012
Dozens of identical passport photographs of her father, painted, collaged or scratched, commenting on immigration, invisibility, longing and censorship.