Primarily inspired by nineteenth- and twentieth-century portraiture, Ayana V. Jackson’s photographs explore race, gender, and reproduction. Throughout her work, Jackson “examines myths of the Black Diaspora and re-stages colonial archival images as a means to liberate the Black body.”
Based between New York, Paris, and Johannesburg, Jackson earned her bachelor of arts degree in sociology at Spelman College, Atlanta, and studied critical theory and large format printing at the University of Berlin.
