John Edmonds, Untitled, (Hood 16), 2026; Signed and Numbered Limited Edition Print

John Edmonds is an American photographer whose works explore themes of identity, community, love, mortality, and belonging. Noted for portraits that focus on the performative gestures and self-fashioning of young Black men on the streets of America, the artist uses film, sculpture, and text to interrupt the seriality of the photographic medium and to challenge image legibility. Edmonds’s works are in numerous public and private collections, which include the Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY; Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY; Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX; Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY; SFMOMA, San Francisco, CA; Rubell Collection, Miami, FL; National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.; J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, CA; and Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY. Based in Brooklyn, he earned his MFA in Photography from Yale University, and was included in the 79th Whitney Biennial in 2019.

Untitled (Hood 16) derives from Edmonds’s Hoods series, which delves into the public perception of an otherwise simple article of clothing—the hooded sweatshirt—that has long been charged with racial implications and political meaning. The artist began this body of work in 2016, capturing strikingly formalist images of subjects whose identities are obscured by the head coverings of their sweaters. Cast in direct sunlight and against stark backgrounds, the anonymous figures conjure notions of safety, injustice, and empathy in America. The artist notes, “I use photography and film to question truth. From an art historical perspective, I am interested in challenging our relationship tradition and convention. What makes an image a portrait? How can we use images to disentangle perception from reality?”

John Edmonds
Untitled (Hood 16), 2026
22 x 15.3 inches
Archival pigment print
Limited edition of 10 with 6 AP + 2 PP
Signed and numbered by the artist 
$3,500

Of ART FOR CHANGE’s initiative to support the Brooklyn Museum, Edmonds adds, " The Brooklyn Museum gave me my first solo show in 2020. I love what the museum stands for and its support of regional and international artists. And I also am forever grateful for the love and support of the institution."

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