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Kwame Brathwaite, photographer who encapsulated ‘Black is beautiful’ movement, has died, aged 85

The New York photographer pioneered lighting and developing techniques that helped transformed how Black figures were photographed and seen

Wallace Ludel
4 April 2023
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Kwame Brathwaite, Untitled (Kwame Brathwaite Self Portrait at AJASS Studios), around 1964, printed 2016 Courtesy of The Kwame Brathwaite Archive