{"id":30651,"date":"2015-05-28T19:54:27","date_gmt":"2015-05-29T02:54:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/illsocietymag.com\/?p=30651"},"modified":"2015-06-01T01:35:32","modified_gmt":"2015-06-01T08:35:32","slug":"fame-photo-film-exhibit-by-anaka-morris-recap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/illsocietymag.com\/?p=30651","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;FAME&#8221; Photo &#038; Film Exhibit By Anaka Morris (Recap)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><a href=\"http:\/\/illsocietymag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/anakamorris.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/illsocietymag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/anakamorris-1024x682.jpg\" alt=\"anakamorris\" width=\"625\" height=\"425\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-30769\" \/><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n<p>On May 16, 2015 ILLSOCIETY and <a href\"http:\/\/www.j3collection.com\/\">J3 Collection<\/a> had the pleasure of hosting a private installation for Los Angeles based visual artist, <a href=\"https:\/\/instagram.com\/anakamorris\/\">Anaka Morris<\/a> first installation project called, &#8220;FAME.&#8221; An ethnographic research photo &#038; film series that explored the concept of individual nature of &#8220;success&#8221; while comparing an artists&#8217; persona to their &#8220;true&#8221; identity. The installation was held at a loft style studio located in downtown LA&#8217;s Art District. The exhibit featured a projected short film by <strong>Anaka Morris<\/strong> with words that read &#8220;Are you famous?'&#8221; above it along with mural-sized print photographs throughout the studio. Guest were able to view (40&#215;40) prints of <strong>Kali Uchis<\/strong>, <strong>Yasiin Bey<\/strong> aka <strong>Mos Def<\/strong>, a few (30&#215;30) of <strong>Kehlani<\/strong>, <strong>Jesse Boykins III<\/strong>, and (20&#215;20) of <strong>SZA<\/strong>, <strong>Jhene Aiko<\/strong>,<strong> Uhlife<\/strong>, <strong>Pink Siifu<\/strong>, <strong>Courtnie Henson<\/strong>, <strong>Mick Jenkins<\/strong> plus many other artists. The vibes were hella chill and their was some cool eclectic people. Catch the photos below of the event and some of Anaka Morris&#8217;s photography.  <\/p>\n<p>All photos shot by <a href=\"https:\/\/instagram.com\/murddaaa\">Sucoyia<\/a><\/p>\n<p><center><a href=\"http:\/\/illsocietymag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/IMG_20150516_214346.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/illsocietymag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/IMG_20150516_214346-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_20150516_214346\" width=\"625\" height=\"425\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-30763\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/illsocietymag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/IMG_20150516_203646.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/illsocietymag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/IMG_20150516_203646-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_20150516_203646\" width=\"625\" height=\"425\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-30761\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/illsocietymag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/anakamorrisfame_1.jpeg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/illsocietymag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/anakamorrisfame_1.jpeg\" alt=\"anakamorrisfame_1\" width=\"625\" height=\"425\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-30655\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/illsocietymag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/image3.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/illsocietymag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/image3.jpg\" alt=\"image3\" width=\"625\" height=\"425\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-30667\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/illsocietymag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/braids.jpeg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/illsocietymag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/braids.jpeg\" alt=\"braids\" width=\"625\" height=\"425\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-30662\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/illsocietymag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/image2.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/illsocietymag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/image2.jpg\" alt=\"image2\" width=\"625\" height=\"425\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-30666\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/illsocietymag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/image1.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/illsocietymag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/image1.jpg\" alt=\"image1\" width=\"625\" height=\"425\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-30665\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/illsocietymag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/image4.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/illsocietymag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/image4.jpg\" alt=\"image4\" width=\"625\" height=\"425\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-30668\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/illsocietymag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/image5.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/illsocietymag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/image5.jpg\" alt=\"image5\" width=\"625\" height=\"425\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-30669\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/illsocietymag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/IMG_20150516_224030.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/illsocietymag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/IMG_20150516_224030-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_20150516_224030\" width=\"625\" height=\"425\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-30765\" \/><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On May 16, 2015 ILLSOCIETY and J3 Collection had the pleasure of hosting a private installation for Los Angeles based visual artist, Anaka Morris first installation project called, &#8220;FAME.&#8221; An ethnographic research photo &#038; film series that explored the concept of individual nature of &#8220;success&#8221; while comparing an artists&#8217; persona to their &#8220;true&#8221; identity. The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":30769,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[79,8,166,78],"tags":[7232,5930,7234,1866,404,6503,4095,126,4018,7233,161,3166,7235],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/illsocietymag.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30651"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/illsocietymag.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/illsocietymag.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/illsocietymag.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/illsocietymag.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=30651"}],"version-history":[{"count":43,"href":"http:\/\/illsocietymag.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30651\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30891,"href":"http:\/\/illsocietymag.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30651\/revisions\/30891"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/illsocietymag.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/30769"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/illsocietymag.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30651"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/illsocietymag.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=30651"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/illsocietymag.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=30651"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}