Blue Black Boy, 1988
Three toned gelatin silver prints with Prestype and frame
Overall: 41 x 122 cm
Collection Eleanor and Leonard Flomenhaft, New York

High Yella Girl, 1988
Gelatin silver prints with Prestype and frame
79 x 79 cm
Collection Eleanor and Leonard Flomenhaft, New York

For the photographs in this series, entitled Colored People, Weems literalised this verbal expression by using standardised colours to hand-dye black and white photographs. She employed gumdrop colours to seduce viewers into 'the complicated discussion about race that I want to have with the audience and myself.' Weems chose models mainly of an age 'when issues of race really begin to affect you, at the point of an innocence beginning to be disrupted.'