Uploaded November 2022 | Updated September 2026, 1 day ago

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Deana Lawson is a Brooklyn-based photographer known for investigating and challenging conventional representations of Black identities and bodies through her photographs.

Watch as Assistant Curator of Photography Maria L. Kelly discusses Chief in the film above. The piece is currently on view on the Lower Level of the High’s Wieland Pavilion.

You can learn more about Deana Lawson’s inventive approach to photography in the special exhibition Deana Lawson, on view until February 19, 2023!
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