ALANNA AIRITAM
Queen Mary (The Queen)(2017)This photograph by Alana Airitam celebrates a vision of Black Americans in an uplifting, inspiring and empowering way. Creating images of her contemporaries as mythical saints, they are pictured as magnificent and omnipotent. She suggests, “The Queen is a reflection of you…she holds the key to all you are offered: an abundance of wealth, love, beauty, creativity, joy, life…”