“Making brilliant use of an old photographic process, Virginia Richards has soulfully summoned a heartrending past. What a vital and astonishing book! Through landscape and portraiture, it speaks, and haunts, and sings.”

—Robin Kelsey, author of 
Photography and the Art of Chance

“Virginia McGee Richards’ breathtaking photographs visualize histories of Black resistance and resilience, while transcending time and powerfully reminding us that the past is an indelible part of the present.”

—Steven Nelson, coeditor, 
Black Modernisms in the Transatlantic World