![]() ![]() To play with fashion is to play with one’s representation in the world ”, he notes. “ Fashion has always been a barometer for measuring privilege, power, class and freedom. Not necessarily educating for the Black viewer or for the white viewer, but just for people in general ,” says Campbell Addy. ![]() “ With every project and everything I try to do, there’s a sense of educating the viewer. Some of the other artists in the exhibition include Campbell Addy, Dana Scruggs, Awol Erizku, and Micaiah Carter. ![]() Today, works by artists included in The New Black Vanguard are often seen on the covers of established fashion magazines around the world. Tyler Mitchell, one of the exhibit’s artists, was the first Black photographer to have his work on a cover for Vogue (2018) with his picture of the pregnant superstar Beyoncé. The exhibition The New Black Vanguard: Photography between Art and Fashion tells stories of this global movement of artists who use their cameras to change an entire industry. The New Black Vanguard brings together photographers from different countries, working in different directions but with the same goal: discarding old ways of representing the Black body and celebrating Black subject matter in the photography and fashion world. ![]()
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