Erica Deeman’s striking series of silhouettes reflects on photography’s fraught history of racial representations and its connections to 19th-century practices of physiognomy—a pseudoscience used to asses character traits from the physical appearance of individuals’ facial forms that was rooted in racist and Eurocentric ideology and institutionalized into policing. “Today, we are living through an important time,” comments Deeman, “where tough questions are being asked about how both people of color and women are treated and depicted.” The scale, grace, and subtleties of Deeman’s images celebrate diversity and the beauty and strength of character of her subjects.