Levi Walton, Photographer, New York

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This vertical monochrome and muted color portrait by photographer Levi Walton features a young Black man with dreadlocks tied up in small pigtails, smiling widely while using his fingers to pull back the corners of his mouth. The image is constructed as a rough torn paper collage, vertically splitting the composition with a ragged white paper tear down the center. In the background, an out-of-focus wire chain-link fence provides an industrial texture. The grain and high-contrast styling give the piece a raw, tactile quality.