Am I What You’re Looking For? Photographs at the intersection of race, gender, and work
Story by Imani Perry
As a graduate student at Yale, Endia Beal studied photography. But her time working in the school’s IT department provided another kind of inspiration for her career. In that office, the desire a co-worker expressed to touch her hair, a common and discomfiting experience for Black women, became fuel for artistic interrogation.
