"Only You" by @yazija 🤍 A beautiful project I did Sum Sum for. Thank you sweet @jacquill.basdew for letting me be with you in this adventure and @kevinisburning to be next to you. Only You, visual record delivered in a longing, and somewhat melancholic manner, takes the viewer through the different stages of a story that is still too often kept invisible within our society: the intimate relationships that exist between BIPOC queer men. In the visual record we see Yazija and his counterpart in constant flux with one another. The growing distance between them is often juxtaposed with moments of intimacy, creating a vulnerable representation of their hidden love that wants to be fulfilled but fails to do so. Only You, directed by upcoming Curaçaoan director Kevin Osepa and in creative collaboration with the American photographer, Clifford Prince King, showcases the queer and in particular the gay sensibility that feels emotionally threatening and socially disruptive to those who are trying to sustain heteronormative constructed lives and identities. While creating the treatment for Only You, Osepa and Yazija found inspiration in King’s sensitive and vulnerable representation of black queer love.