An exhibit that showcases the vision and optimism of a new generation

Carter—who grew up in Durham, North Carolina and now lives in Dallas, Texas—highlights the aesthetic and sociopolitical aspects of Black life through her photographs. Her work has been featured in British Vogue, GQ, Vanity Fair, Essence, The New York Times, Time and other notable publishers worldwide. In an effort to shine a light on the Black experience, she homes in on skin, texture, trauma, love and peace to actively reinstate confidence and creativity across the Black community and beyond. 

Green’s work was most recently displayed in a solo show at Fotografiska New York and has been published everywhere, from The New York Times to Apple, and many notable brands and publications in between. A tangible project includes a set of 54 playing cards each featuring a queer womxn, trans, non-binary or gender-nonconforming person inspired by Catherine Opie's "Dyke Deck.” Her work aims to tell the stories of those captured in a single snapshot in a comfortable and inclusive setting for subjects familiar and unfamiliar to her. 

Award winning director and photographer, Abdi Ibrahim, grew up in Seattle, Washington before moving to Los Angeles. As a Somali-American, he is the son of two refugee parents from East Africa, partially inspiring his drive to capture Black figures through his work. Now, at only 26 years old, Abdi’s photos have been featured in The New Yorker, Harper’s Bazaar, Esquire and more; he has also directed commercials for Lacoste and Apple Music. 

Living between Los Angeles and New York City, King documents his personal and intimate relationships through his images, which he describes as a “nod to the beyond.” As a queer Black man, he expresses “the reality of layered personhood” through each shot and body of work. His pieces live within the collections at The Hammer Museum, Studio Museum in Harlem, Los Angeles County Museum and have been published by Dazed, Interview, The Wall Street Journal and more.

A self-taught photographer, Segars focuses on capturing everyday moments that uplift people and uses his lens as an outlet to not only understand the world around him, but to also more astutely understand himself. His personal practice revolves around the everyday—documenting candid moments found while walking the streets of Brooklyn and Manhattan, with a specific interest in making images that uplift people, as can be seen in his immersive collection of portraits surrounding the “power and politics” of a Black barbershop and his stunning work documenting the complexities of life in Havana, Cuba.

Born in Poland, the LA-based photographer is rarely seen without a camera slung from her shoulder. She shoots constantly and places her lens in the middle of it all. She has documented diverse groups from transgender skate crews to heavy metal musicians to cowboys in Compton, and no matter who she captures in her uncluttered frame, her goal is to inspire the viewer to abandon passivity and question what they’re seeing. More recently, and for more than a decade, she documented her relationships compulsively, working to zero in on human connection—and both the electric elation and tender torment that accompany it.