![]() It’s a perspective often seen from this loose movement of thriving talents, who are creating photography in vastly different contexts-New York and Johannesburg, Lagos and London. Seeking to challenge the idea that Blackness is homogenous, the works serve as a form of visual activism. The images open up conversations around the representation of the Black body and Black lives as subject matter collectively, they celebrate Black creativity and the cross-pollination between art, fashion, and culture in constructing an image. ![]() Their work has been widely consumed in traditional lifestyle magazines, ad campaigns, and museums, as well as on their individual social-media channels, reinfusing the contemporary visual vocabulary around beauty and the body with new vitality and substance. The New Black Vanguard: Photography between Art and Fashion presents artists whose vibrant portraits and conceptual images fuse the genres of art and fashion photography in ways that break down long-established boundaries. ![]()
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