“Black subjects are depicted by Black photographers; their gaze is mutual and consensual"

A girl stares at the camera.

As We Rise: Photography from the Black Atlantic celebrates work from the Wedge Collection, Canada’s largest privately owned contemporary art collection exploring African culture and Black life, established by Dr Kenneth Montague in 1997.

Taking us from Harlem, New York, in the 1930s to contemporary Toronto, Canada, this compelling exhibition of photographs is currently on at the Saatchi Gallery in London, England.