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These black-and-white photographs form part of Nazareth’s Ethnography Series. He photographs archival images of black and indigenous peoples found in anthropological museums across the globe and blurs them to a haunting effect. He then draws circles in white Efun chalk, which has a sacred importance to the Yoruba people and to diasporic Africans in the Americas, where it is used in Santeria, Candomblé, and Voodoo. These painted white circles also nod to the geometric fascination of the Neo-concrete school of art prominent in Brazil from 1959 onward.