Over the last decade, as artists have turned to the genre of the family portrait, they reflect our ever-expansive notions of belonging.
By showing Black life as leisure, repose, and outdoor play, Mitchell expands our visual vocabulary of race and space.
Aperture’s fall issue, “Arrhythmic Mythic Ra,” refracts themes of family, social history, and the astrophysical through the eyes of guest editor Deana Lawson, one of the most compelling photographers working today.
