As We See It

As We See It is a collection of contemporary black existence captured on film and canvas. As each set of portraits is introduced by a new artist, the understanding of identity shifts. The idea of blackness proliferates before our eyes as we see how it intersects with other identities held by the artists. The images range from fashion, and beauty, to the ways in which political and even personal memory will inscribe itself on the present moment. There are images of everyday life, and then there are images that transform the world into a fantastical playground, or elevate the mundane into something otherworldly. A collection of work that refuses to define the very thing it calls itself, and oh what a wonderful thing that is.