As We Rise: Photography from the Black Atlantic

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Sales PointsA timely and exuberant look at global Black art, culture, and identity

Richly illustrated with illuminating commentary by leading writers and thinkers

Drawn from a Black-owned collection dedicated to artists from the African diaspora

Featured photographers based in:
Abdo Shanan
Joo Mendes, Eustquio Neves, Afonso Pimenta
Sanl Sory
Samuel Fosso
Tayo Yannick Anton, Deanna Bowen, Sandra Brewster, Jorian Charlton, June Clark, Erika DeFreitas, Stan Douglas, Yannis Davy Guibinga, Jrme Havre, Aaron Jones, Anique Jordan, Luther Konadu, Zun Lee (Toronto/Charlotte, North Carolina), Rene Mathews, Jalani Morgan, Bidemi Oloyede, MichlePearson Clarke, Camal Pirbhai, Camille Turner, Eve Tagny
Ada Muluneh
Mohamed Bourouissa
James Barnor (London/Ghana)
Ebony G. Patterson (Kingston, Jamaica/Chicago)
Mohamed Camara, Seydou Keta, Malick Sidib
Hassan Hajjaj (London/Marrakech, Morocco)
Lakin Ogunbanwo, J.D. 'Okhai Ojeikere
William Cordova
Oumar Ly
Jody Brand, Jabulani Dhlamini, Lebohang Kganye, Jamal Nxedlana, Athi-Patra Ruga, Andrew Tshabangu, Nontsikelelo Veleko
Raphael Albert, James Barnor (London/Ghana), Vanley Burke, Rotimi Fani-Kayode, Kris Graves (New York/London), Joy Gregory, Hassan Hajjaj (London/Marrakech, Morocco), Liz Johnson Artur, Dennis Morris, Horace Ov, Eileen Perrier, Charlie Phillips, Richard Mark Rawlins
Henry Clay Anderson, Anthony Barboza, Dawoud Bey, Arielle Bobb-Willis, Kwame Brathwaite, Elliott Jerome Brown Jr., Kennedi Carter, Teju Cole, Renee Cox, Louis Draper, LaToya Ruby Frazier, Courtney D. Garvin, Kris Graves (New York/London), L. Kasimu Harris, Barkley L. Hendricks, Leslie Hewitt, Texas Isaiah, Ayana V. Jackson, Rashid Johnson, Deana Lawson, Zun Lee (Toronto/Charlotte, North Carolina), Tyler Mitchell, Gordon Parks, Ebony G. Patterson (Kingston, Jamaica/Chicago), Dawit L. Petros, Ruddy Roye, Jamel Shabazz, Xaviera Simmons, Lorna Simpson, Hank Willis Thomas, Mickalene Thomas, James Van Der Zee, Ruby Washington, Ricky Weaver, Carrie Mae Weems, Ming Smith, Paul Anthony Smith
Calvin Dondo

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Dr. Kenneth Montague started the Wedge Collection in 1997 to acquire and exhibit art that explores Black identity. In addition to the Wedge Collection, Montague founded Wedge Curatorial Projects, a nonprofit arts organization that helps to support emerging Black artists. A Toronto-based art collector, Montague has been a member of the Art Gallery of Ontario's board of trustees since 2015. He has served on the African acquisitions committee at Tate Modern, London, and is an advisor to the Department of Arts of Global Africa and the Diaspora at the Art Gallery of Ontario. Teju Cole is a photographer, novelist, essayist, and curator. His photobook Blind Spot (2017) was shortlisted for the 2017 Paris Photo-Aperture Foundation Photo-Book Awards. His other books include the novel Open City (2011), winner of the 2012 PEN/Hemingway Award, and the photobooks Fernweh (2020) and Golden Apple of the Sun (2021). Cole's photography has been the subject of numerous solo exhibitions. He has been a visiting critic at the Yale School of Art, New Haven, Connecticut; and he was photography critic for the New York Times Magazine until 2019. He is currently a professor in the English department at Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts. Dr. Mark Sealy is interested in the relationships between photography and social change, identity politics, race, and human rights. He has been director of Autograph ABP (Association of Black Photographers), UK, since 1991, and has produced numerous artist publications, curated exhibitions, and commissioned photographers and filmmakers worldwide. He curated the exhibition From Here to Eternity: Sunil Gupta. A Retrospective at the Photographers' Gallery, London (2020), and Ryerson Image Centre, Toronto (2022); and he is author of the book Decolonising the Camera: Photography in Racial Time (2019). Sealy holds a PhD from Durham University, England, and currently serves as Principal Research Fellow Decolonising Photography at University of the Arts London. Liz Ikiriko is a Tkaronto/Toronto-based, Nigerian Canadian artist and curator. She is assistant curator at the Art Gallery of York University, Toronto, and cocurator of the 13th Rencontres de Bamako/African Biennale of Photography, Mali (2021). Her most recent curatorial projects include Is Love a Synonym for Abolition at Gallery 44, Toronto (2021); ___a lineage of transgression___ at ArtSpace Peterborough, Canada (2020); and The Break, The Wake, The Hold, The Breath at Circuit Gallery, Prefix Institute of Contemporary Art, Toronto (2019). Her writing has appeared in Public Journal, MICE Magazine, C Magazine, BlackFlash Magazine, and Akimbo. Ikiriko holds an MFA in criticism and curatorial practice from Ontario College of Art and Design University, Toronto.