THE PROJECT
A photoshoot for BlackBoard Magazine’s Diaspora Issue (Winter 2020). As lead creative director and photographer for the shoot, I, along with the rest of the magazine's editorial team, chose to visualize an ode to pan-Africanism that highlights the multiplicity and rich cultural history of Blackness.
THE PROCESS
I, along with a team of stylists, editors, and a co-photographer, envisioned a shoot with a group of models diverse in skin tone, origin, and background demonstrating that Blackness is not a monolith, but instead, a complex identity composed of the roots and routes of the inhabitants of Black bodies and their ancestors. The editorial team decided to clothe the models in traditional African garb as a distinct and vibrant unifying factor across the shoot alluding to the shared transatlantic experience amongst Black communities and the connection of these communities to Africa.
THE PRODUCT
A photoshoot that illustrates a bright visual narrative demonstrative of the power and range of Black community, Black joy, and Black beauty and its manifestation in the African diaspora through a myriad of faces, spaces, and places.
