Through her photography, Stacey Tyrell explores the interplay of race, heritage, immigration and identity as it pertains to post-colonial societies and the Caribbean Diaspora. Her images attempt to interpret the dualism that is inherent in the Euro-centric constructs of “Whiteness” and “Blackness” in Western societies -- a dynamic which she feels leaves little room for the reality that the majority of people in post-colonial societies are hybrids of its past and current inhabitants. In her case this means ancestors who were from West African and Western/Northern Europe. Tyrell believes that DNA tells the story of the brutal system of colonial African slavery and the legacy it left behind in the Americas. Viewing her physical features as a black woman, she feels that she is automatically assigned a racial identity by whoever is looking at her, her skin color often obscuring and over-riding the features and markers of the other races that are present in her genetic make-up. By changing her skin color and making subtle tweaks to her features, Tyrell shows that if someone were to take a closer look at her face they would see that it might not be that much different from their own.