And you view other people's photos in a beautiful, black-background gallery, with comments off to the right.
With under 2% of chairs categorised as coming from black or minority ethnic backgrounds, Castlefield Gallery director Kwong Lee's comments in 2012 on diversity still hold true: "A lot of ethnic minorities still don't know it's an option for them to … be a leader within the cultural industries".
The New York Times made a big impression (and reputedly spent a huge budget) with its Snow Fall story, which took long-form online journalism a step further with immersive scrolling, animated backgrounds, image galleries and video excerpts.
While viewers walk through "Disguise," a soundtrack plays in the background, turning the galleries into immersive environments with plenty of play between African masks and their contemporary counterparts.
Children were particularly intrigued by an elaborate labyrinth of mirrored walls that he constructed within his gallery as background for the antique pieces.
Often, as we are permitted access to a budget meeting or PR discussion, an art-history lecture, nude life study or some craftsman's minutely exacting restoration work, you will be intensely aware of the gallery's background silence, which is as an almost audible hum.
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Mr. Kinmonth served as a consultant for the flamboyantly theatrical 2004 exhibition "Dangerous Liaisons: Fashion and Furniture in the 18th Century," which used the prerenovation Wrightsman Galleries as background for lavishly costumed mannequins posed in all kinds of erotic and scandalous ways.
With an exhibition design by the architects AOC, the show lights up the grey cave of the Barbican's gallery, with backgrounds in pistachio and pink, illuminated as highly as conservation requirements allow, calling to each other across a shadowy central void.
