The big picture: a Technicolor tribute to Trayvon Martin

Senegalese photographer Omar Victor Diop pays homage to the teenager killed in a 2012 US shootingIn 2016, the Senegalese photographer Omar Victor Diop began what he calls the “liberty project”, dramatising in his studio defining moments of black history. This picture, dedicated to the memory of Trayvon Martin, is the most recent of the events that he portrays. As in all of his pictures, Diop casts himself as the teenager, just as he depicts himself in the shoes of Senegalese second w