ALANNA AIRITAM
Queen Mary (The Queen)(2017)This photograph by Alana Airitam celebrates a vision of Black Americans in anuplifting, 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…”