Crush On You 

This photoshoot is about romanticizing the black body, in an innocent way girl next doorway.  I wanted to explore how our blackness influences our identities with relationships, attractiveness, and sexuality. Growing up in a predominantly white neighboorhood, I never felt like the cute girl, nor desired. I often second-guessed crushes with the thought "maybe they don't like black girls." I was often fetishized, oversexualized, or good enough for the hook-up, but not to date. I began to internalize how I saw my body in relationship to whiteness. I encourage you to listen to my model's own experiences and connections to blackness & sexuality.