About the Author

Deana Lawson (born in Rochester, New York, 1979) is a photographer based in Brooklyn. She received her MFA in photography from the Rhode Island School of Design, and her work has been featured in solo exhibitions at the Art Institute of Chicago and the Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis and group exhibitions at the Museum of Modern Art and the Whitney Museum of American Art. Lawson is currently assistant professor in visual arts at Princeton University. Arthur Jafa is a filmmaker and cinematographer. He has directed several films, including Sharifa Walks (2015), In the Morning (2014), and Dreams Are Colder Than Death (2014), and was the cinematographer for Eyes Wide Shut (1999) and, more recently, Solange's music video Cranes in the Sky (2016). Jafa's work has been shown at Gavin Brown's Enterprise, Serpentine Galleries, London; Hammer Museum, Los Angeles; Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; and Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia.