Arielle Gray

Issue 161

Arielle Gray is a photographer from Tuscaloosa, Alabama, and a recent graduate of the School of Arts and Sciences at the University of Alabama. She is creating portraits that explore themes of the shared Black experience, she is exploring themes of building an identity in a southern landscape that is both communal and an exploration of selfhood. Gray is expanding her reach into the northeastern region of the world while she is obtaining her masters. Overall, she is looking to dive deeper into narratives of the Black female subjectivity.

With this work, Gray has been able to build the start to an ongoing, seemingly lifelong project. She is looking to negotiate the nation’s perception of Blackness in the south but also what it means to be a woman and how that relates to sense of self and community. While creating these portraits, she is also looking to create a written component of this project through mediums such as poetry and narrative essays.

Arielle Gray (she/her) lives and works in New Haven, Connecticut, United States.
ariellegray.net | @ariellegray_