{"product_id":"roots-picnic-music-festival-philadelphia-june-4-2016-the-day-the-after-the-great-muhammad-ali-passed-away","title":"Roots Picnic music festival. Philadelphia. June 4, 2016. The day the after the great Muhammad Ali passed away","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"description product-section grid grid-cols-12 lg:grid-cols-16 gap-4 enter-in-1 animation-delay-400\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"col-span-12 lg:col-span-8 lg:col-start-5 rich-text text-md-plus leading-none\"\u003e\"On June 4, 2016, I took the train from New York to Philadelphia to attend the Roots Picnic music festival. I had wanted to go for years and never had the chance. No one in my entourage was interested in going with me, so, as an obsessive music head, I went alone. Future, DMX, Kehlani, Anderson .Paak and Kaytranada were playing, and I was not going to miss that. Back then, these artists were already the soundtrack to my days as I endlessly walked the streets of New York with my iPhone. Music on, camera ready. I wanted to pay tribute to the beauty and the chaos of the city I had moved to - midlife - a few years earlier. Street photography became a way to document places, people and my own sense of belonging. As a keen observer of my times, the infamous New York street style always caught my eye. What we choose to wear says a lot about who we are, what shaped us or what we stand for. So when I got to Philly on that hot Saturday, fashion was what struck me right away. A parade of vintage tees. A moving archive of cultural references. Old rap tours, basketball legends, films from the ’90s. An entire generation wearing the symbols of another. Mine. I was immediately captivated by what these t-shirts revealed about heritage, nostalgia and our collective memory.  That weekend was also the weekend Muhammad Ali passed away. Seeing so many young people wearing Ali t-shirts said something about how certain images and figures travel time. I didn’t photograph the rarest T-shirts or the most beautiful ones, but the ones that strongly and instinctively resonated with me. The ones that reflected my own sense of culture, my own heritage - and what, I think, deserves to remain.\"\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Idea House 3","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52056241733927,"sku":null,"price":25.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0837\/0189\/1367\/files\/EgleedeBure-RootsPicnicmusicfestival.Philadelphia.June4_2016.ThedaytheafterthegreatMuhammadAlipassedaway_1.webp?v=1789155555","url":"https:\/\/checkout.walkerart.org\/products\/roots-picnic-music-festival-philadelphia-june-4-2016-the-day-the-after-the-great-muhammad-ali-passed-away","provider":"Walker Art Center","version":"1.0","type":"link"}