Tyahra Angus

Lover of anything Queer, Black, Artistic, and/or covered in chocolate, Tyahra Symone Angus is a Boston-based photographer and artist. She started AfroCentered Media in 2015 and has been collecting and publishing photographs that increase the representation of Black/Brown people in our media, particularly Black women, and even more particularly, Black Queer women like herself. Vernacular portraits and event photography are where she finds her home and in 2018 Angus developed an archive of event photography from various Black owned groups and institutions. She finds excitement in other artistic mediums; however, she has found nothing that illuminates hidden perspectives in private spaces within her community like photography. 

Tyahra Angus has organized photo-booth pop ups, hosted film screenings and panel discussions in addition to workshops about capturing the scene through documentary photography. Her work was featured in Black Futures (Penguin, Random House, 2021), a collection of images, essays, memes, recipes, poetry, and more that illustrates what it means to be Black and alive at this moment. Angus earned her B.A. from Smith College with a concentration in Black Queer Literature and Art and received her MFA in Visual Arts at Lesley University in 2020 where she focused on photo-based media, sculpture, and Black vernacular/documentary photography.

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