Maryland photographer Carina Laventure’s series ‘Lace and Lineage’ explores Black masculinity and the strength found in softness.
“Softness is not the absence of strength, but rather a continuation. It has been disciplined, erased from both body and cultural memory. Still, it remains enmeshed in ‘Lace and Lineage.’”
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Billboard coming soon—watch this space for updates as we celebrate this photographer and their work on their own billboard in their state.
ABOUT THE PHOTOGRAPHER
Carina Laventure is a photographer and creative director in her third year at the illustrious Howard University. Her work explores Black identity, youth, and fashion through a sociocultural lens.
Informed by her philosophical studies, she approaches photography as both an artistic practice and a means of interrogating how we see, understand, and remember one another.
