Deana Lawson | ApertureContributions by Zadie Smith and Arthur Jafa Deana Lawson is one of the most compelling photographers of her generation. Over the last ten years, she has created a visionary language to describe identities through intimate portraiture and striking accounts of ceremonies and rituals. Using medium and large format cameras, Lawson works with models she meets in the United States and on travels in the Caribbean and Africa to construct arresting, highly