17 X 19 Premium Gloss Prints,
Concord, MA
2020.
Shot, curated, and exhibited at the Ishibi Gallery all under 2 months.
These portraits addressed issues of representation and agency, while also celebrating each subject’s individual talents and personalities. They encouraged the viewer to question why these individuals’ stories were so frequently marginalized. There were 59 members of MXFAM. I asked each of them to write a brief biography about what being Black means to them, granting them agency to express themselves, their experiences, their cultures, and their identities.
The portraits were accompanied by a video projection, which highlighted one individual at a time along with their respective biography. With each successive visit to the gallery, viewers would “meet” different people through the video, mirroring the gradual process of getting to know the individual personalities that compose the larger group— challenging any assumptions about a monolithic, group identity.