What Sustain Us 

Black people are often photographed in public, in relation to struggle, in relation to history, in relation to race. Far less often are they photographed in the intimacy of the worlds they have built for themselves. Simply as people inhabiting homes, routines, aesthetics, values, memories, and sources of nourishment.

This series explores how Black people inhabit home and the material, emotional, cultural, and spiritual resources that sustain them. Developed through visits, conversations, and shared time, the work attends to the intimate worlds people build around themselves: the objects they keep close, the spaces they cultivate, the histories they carry, and the forms of nourishment they create. Moving beyond the home as shelter alone, the series asks what it means to belong, to feel resourced, and to make a life within spaces shaped by memory, aspiration, and everyday care.