Dandy Lion: (Re)Articulating Black Masculine Identity

An exhibition at the Museum of Contemporary Photography explores the sartorial movement that goes beyond self-expression

by Chérmelle D. Edwards For the past five years, Shantrelle P. Lewis has curated images created by contemporary photographers and filmmakers to document the articulation of the sartorial identity of the black male. This month—as a guest curator at Columbia College Chicago’s Museum of Contemporary Photography (MoCP)—she brings five years of discovery into the first comprehensive exhibition on the subject with Dandy Lion: (Re)Articulating Black …