Things You Can Tell Just By Looking At Him charts the movement of racist constructs and racial frameworks in speech and language, mapping the collision of racist ideologies across the lived experiences of Black people. Originally comprised of photographs, text, and hand printed t-shirts, this series documents Isaiah Lopaz’ experiences with racism and anti-Blackness in Berlin. Initially presented through a blog titled Him Noir, Things You Can Tell Just By Looking at Him was exhibited internationally through various processes of media engagement and publication. Photographs from this series were published across print, video, digital, and audio media in Germany, France, Italy, Spain, Greece, Austria, Switzerland, Brazil, Japan, the United Kingdom, and the U.S.A. Positioning publication as a method of exhibition, allowed Lopaz to examine first hand how the media functions as an agent of socialisation, influencing understandings and framings of race and racism across time and locality. Things You Can Tell Just By Looking At Him has transformed into a series of transdisciplinary, interconnected works including installations, performances, discussions, workshops, video, and academic discourse.

Images in order of appearance :
We Didn’t Have Colonies
You Have No Culture Because You Come From Slaves
Where Can We Get Some Drugs?
Where Do You Really Come From?
I’m Afraid You Think I’m Racist
Black People Smell Different
Nigger III
Even Though You’re Black You’re Really Beautiful
There’s Racism. Is That Real?
I Never Had Sex With A Black Guy Before

Color photography, 2016 - 2017. Dimensions variable.