Black Love inspired me. Making these portraits renewed my spirit
During the pandemic, photographer Laylah Amatullah Barrayn was inspired by the book, All About Love to create Love in Black: A Portrait Story, photographs showing how people were defining love.
When the pandemic arrived stateside in early 2020 and our lives were unceremoniously ordered online; online became a lifeline in unimaginable ways.
The robust activity in the digital space included dancing until daybreak in Club Quarantine, the ingenuity of the Don't Rush challenge in all its everlasting iterations, learning how to be a billionaire on Clubhouse and our favorite singer-songwriter-rapper-producers battled it out in Versuz.
Amid the array of content, there. I listened to discussions on All About Love in Clubhouse, watched live talks on Instagram and Facebook, and read excerpts of it on TikTok.
