Written by - Jennifer Moulaison
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“It was a thrilling compliment, and I was delighted at the opportunity,” says Bull. Leaning into the brilliant use of color for which he is known, Bull set out to capture Ali throughout the stages of his life. “It was a particularly unique privilege to create the only chronology of Ali’s life, from when he was a child to when he was matured before his death. However, I encountered that all of the images from his youth were only the cliché black-and-white photos, with which everyone was already so familiar,” says Bull. He wanted to rejuvenate those images and present them in a way that was, in his words, “shocking, so that viewers were compelled to engage with the image[s] in a way they never had done before.”