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MIRANDA BARNES Miranda Rae Barnes is a Caribbean American photographer born in Brooklyn, New York in 1994.She received her Bachelor of Arts in Humanities and Justice from John Jay College of Criminal Justice in New York City. Her work has been featured nationally in recent exhibitions at the Brooks Museum (Memphis, TN, 2019-2020), Photoville (Brooklyn, NY, 2019, 2018), and FotoFocus Biennial (Cincinnati, OH, 2018). A Magnum Foundation fellow and PDN30 in 2019, she has been featured in Artsy, Harper’s Bazaar, Le Monde, It’s Nice That, Vice Magazine, and W Magazine. Her selected client list includes Adidas, The Atlantic, FT Magazine, The New York Times, The New Yorker, TIME, Leica, Vogue Magazine and Wall Street Journal Magazine. She lives and works in Brooklyn, New York. On the side, she was interested in making portraits for a project on black female twins. She bought a Hasselblad because it was “light and would do.” Her Instagram posts caught the attention of a photo editor at The New York Times, who called Barnes in March, 2018. Could she fly to Memphis to cover the 50th anniversary of Martin Luther King’s assassination? “I was shocked,” Barnes says. One of
