Through photography, writing, and activism, Jeanne Moutoussamy-Ashe transforms the personal into a broader meditation on contemporary society and politics. Raised on the South Side of Chicago in the 1950s and’60s, Moutoussamy-Ashe’s understanding of race and class was shaped by the city’s systemic discriminatory practices; as she later reflected, Chicago had, “in its own way, a form of apartheid.” After encountering Ernest Cole’s photographs and training with mentors such as Gordon Parks and Garry Winogrand in the early 1970s, Moutoussamy-Ashe traveled to South Africa at the height of apartheid, armed with her camera.