Photographer Richard Barnes shares how he was able to capture the repatriation movement—and the artifacts that are finally making their way home
For the past three years, photographer Richard Barnes has been traveling the world to document a recent phenomenon in archaeology: a new generation of curators and artists who are calling forBarnes has journeyed to Carrara, Italy, where artists and researchers are carving replicas of ancient Greek marble statues to replace the originals standing in the British Museum.
In the past five to 10 years this legacy has been reexamined and the floodgates have opened for those artifacts to be returned to Africa, he says. Barnes hopes readers take away a new understanding of the history behind different objects featured in the March issue. The people whose ancestors created these items “can’t see their own culture unless they travel to a world capital, be it Paris, New York, Washington, D.C., or London.”What’s the story behind the feature?
But the casters can’t see their predecessors’ work without traveling to the British Museum in London, where most of the bronzes are housed. Barnes recalls the head of the guild, Phil Omodamwen, questioning why he should have to travel to another country to view his cultural heritage.When the molds are heated, the wax between the layers of clay melts away. The casters then prepare molten metal to pour into the mold, which takes the shape of the exquisitely detailed void left from the lost wax.
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