When day comes we step out of the shade,
aflame and unafraid
The new dawn blooms as we free it
For there is always light,
if only we’re brave enough to see it
If only we’re brave enough to be it
~ excerpt from “The Hill We Climb” by Amanda Gorman

Xuan-Hui Ng From the series Metamorphosis, courtesy of the artist.

Leslie Jean-Bart “Untitled” from the series Reality and Imagination-Silhouette and Shadow of Life, courtesy of the artist. (Featured Image)

Tavon Taylor from the series The Clouds Whispered Your Name, courtesy of the artist.

Jennifer McClure “Untitled” from the series Today, When I Could Do Nothing, courtesy of the artist.

Tokie Rome-Taylor “Veiled” 2018, courtesy of the artist.

Rania Matar “Mia and Jun, Allston, Massachusetts, 2020” from the series Across Windows, courtesy of the artist and Robert Klein Gallery, Boston.

Alanna Airitam “Queen Mary” 2017 from the series The Golden Age, courtesy of the artist.

Jess T. Dugan “Caprice, 55, Chicago, IL, 2015,” from the series To Survive on This Shore, courtesy of the artist and Catherine Edelman Gallery, Chicago.

Rohina Hoffman “Dressing Up, Dressing Down” from the series Generation 1.75, courtesy of the artist.

Iaritza Menjivar “Rubi and Matheus” 2013 from the series First Generation, courtesy of the artist.

Priya Kambli “Kambli Family (Studio Portrait) & Which One is Different” 2019 from the series Buttons for Eyes courtesy of the artist.

Molly Lamb “Untitled 12” from the series Take Care of Your Sister, courtesy of the artist and Rick Wester Fine Art, New York.

Jerry Takigawa “The Immigrants Story” 2017 from the series Balancing Cultures, courtesy of the artist, Weston Gallery, Carmel, CA and Green Chalk Contemporary, Monterey, CA.

Will Wilson “Nicholas Galanin, citizen of the Tlingit Nation, Trans-customary artist, from the Critical Indigenous Photographic Exchange, New Mexico Museum of Art, Santa Fe Indian Market, 2012,” courtesy of the artist.

Aline Smithson “Melanesia” from the series Fugue State, courtesy of the artist and Obscura Gallery, Santa Fe, NM.

Jeanine Michna-Bales “Freedom. Canadian soil, Sarnia, Ontario” 2014, digital chromogenic print from the series and book Through Darkness to Light: Photographs Along the Underground Railroad (Princeton Architectural Press, 2017), courtesy of the artist, Arnika Dawkins Gallery, Atlanta and PDNB Gallery, Dallas.
Curated by Elin Spring and Suzanne Révy