Black Picket Fences (2017-2020)

Encompassing environmental portraiture and documentary photographs of contemporary black households and the everyday lives of those who inhabit them; this body of work aims to highlight an often overlooked group in contemporary American culture: the black, suburban middle class. 

While this group has not entirely been forgotten, it is hard to define. For some, these photographs might be the first and most intimate form of contact or interaction they might have with a black household. The work is largely inspired by one central question: If the ethos of the suburban landscape is largely understood as an ideologically “white” space, how do we begin to discuss the paradox of the black suburb and the ways in which is challenges the concept of whiteness and the suburban lifestyle?