About the artwork:
This photo captures an intimate moment between two figures. The focus of the image is on the beauty of the figures' hands and skin and their tender connection; the figures' faces are not in the composition. Carter's work highlights the aesthetics and sociopolitical aspects of Black life. Her images also reinvent notions of creativity and confidence in the realm of Blackness by focusing on the frequently overlooked beauties of the Black experience: skin, texture, trauma, peace, love and community.
“Something that I took for granted for so long was what it feels like to be close to people and just touch someone. There’s this vulnerability that comes from being with someone that you allow to get this close to and truly touch you, whether it be physically mentally or just emotionally.” — Kennedi Carter
About the artist:
Kennedi Carter’s photography focuses primarily on Black subjects, highlighting the aesthetics and sociopolitical aspects of Black life. Her work explores the overlooked beauties of the Black experience: skin, texture, trauma, peace, love, and community. Through her images, Carter aims to reinvent notions of creativity and confidence in the realm of Blackness.
Kennedi Carter was born in Dallas, TX, and lives in Durham, North Carolina. She earned a degree in African American Studies from the North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University in Greensboro, NC, and one in Photography from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro, in Greensboro, NC (2022).
Carter has mounted solo exhibitions of her work at the Harvey B. Gantt Center for African-American Arts + Culture in Charlotte, NC (2023); ROSEGALLERY in Santa Monica, CA (2023, 2021); The Contemporary Art Museum of Raleigh in Raleigh, NC (2019), the 21c Museum Hotel in Durham, NC (2019); and the Durham Art Guild in Durham, NC (2019).
She has participated in group exhibitions at the Duke Center for Documentary Studies in Durham, NC (2018), the Photo Vogue Festival in Milan, Italy (2018), and the Nasher Museum of Art in Durham, NC (2018).
Her work has been published in The New York Times, National Geographic, Vogue, and elsewhere.
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This photo, an intimate moment between two Black figures, reinvents notions of creativity and confidence in the realm of Blackness by focusing on the frequently overlooked beauties of the Black experience: skin, texture, trauma, peace, love and community.More
- Unframed
- Edition of 5
- Signed
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