#black-portraiture

#black-portraiture

You might already recognize the figures in Coreen Simpson's photographs. Yes, they are influential and famous: Winnie Mandela, Eartha Kitt, and Toni Morrison, to name a few. But some of her other images - her studio portraits and street candids - are familiar in a different way. Simpson's lens captures them with such intimacy that they might call to mind your neighbors, childhood pastor, or play cousins.