Edited by Sarah Lewis, Leigh Raiford, and Deborah Willis

The Vision & Justice Book Series is a groundbreaking endeavor conceived by Vision & Justice founder Sarah Lewis and published by Aperture.

Vision & Justice titles celebrate a vanguard of image-makers and artistic legacies, saluting unheralded, yet foundational work. The first three titles in the series include Race Stories: Essays on the Power of Images, a compilation of writings by the cultural historian, curator, and writer Maurice Berger, published in 2024; Coreen Simpson: A Monograph (2025), a comprehensive survey of a singular, creative force who interweaves photography, design, and explorations of identity; and a forthcoming title on the prolific civil rights–era photographer Doug Harris.

The series is coedited by Sarah Lewis, distinguished author, art historian, and John L. Loeb Associate Professor of the Humanities and Associate Professor of African and African American Studies at Harvard University; Leigh Raiford, author, leading scholar of Black visual culture, and professor of African American studies at the University of California, Berkeley; and Deborah Willis, MacArthur award-winning artist, historian, and chair of the Department of Photography and Imaging at the Tisch School of the Arts at New York University.

To select and present titles with Aperture, the Vision & Justice Book Series coeditors work in consultation with an Advisory Board including photographers Dawoud Bey, Awol Erizku, Tyler Mitchell, Ming Smith, and Carrie Mae Weems; writers and authors Jelani Cobb, Teju Cole, Vinson Cunningham, Nicole Fleetwood, and Salamishah Tillet; curators and art world leaders LeRonn Brooks, Valerie Cassel Oliver, Rujeko Hockley, and Antwaun Sargent; and scholars, professors, and historians Courtney R. Baker, Huey Copeland, Cheryl Finley, Henry Louis Gates Jr., Michael B. Gillespie, and Richard Powell.

Support for the Vision & Justice Book Series has been generously provided by Dawoud Bey, the Carnegie Foundation, the Ford Foundation, Agnes Gund, and an anonymous donor.

Additional fundraising is underway.

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Read more about Vision & Justice in the New York Times, “Welcoming Underexposed Black Photographers Into the Canon”