Billie Carter-Rankin - Clad in White

$100.00

Clad in White,‍ ‍2019

AIR 2024

Inkjet print on paper
8 × 10 Inches

In 2018, I inherited photo albums from my maternal grandparents. Despite not recognizing most of the faces, the depiction of birthdays, rituals, and celebrations felt familiar, as I compared these depictions to my understanding of self and personal worldview. This sparked questions about archival access and how meaning shifts as time separates images from their original context. Clad in White is the first iteration of me addressing these questions, where I began exploring the possibilities of an archive over time, and how it becomes recontextualized through new audiences and materials.

This print is available only from September 17th - December 7th, 2026. After this date, this image will not be made available in this format again.

Clad in White,‍ ‍2019

AIR 2024

Inkjet print on paper
8 × 10 Inches

In 2018, I inherited photo albums from my maternal grandparents. Despite not recognizing most of the faces, the depiction of birthdays, rituals, and celebrations felt familiar, as I compared these depictions to my understanding of self and personal worldview. This sparked questions about archival access and how meaning shifts as time separates images from their original context. Clad in White is the first iteration of me addressing these questions, where I began exploring the possibilities of an archive over time, and how it becomes recontextualized through new audiences and materials.

This print is available only from September 17th - December 7th, 2026. After this date, this image will not be made available in this format again.

Billie Carter-Rankin

Billie Carter-Rankin (b.1995) is a visual artist from Milwaukee, Wisconsin. She experiments with photography, darkroom processing, and archived images to explore loss within personal and collective memory. Her work primarily focuses on the absence of information, and the potential that is created as a result of that absence. She graduated with an MFA in Photography from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 2020, and her BA in Media, Journalism, and Film from Howard University in 2018.

Thoughts on the lab

The resources available at Latitude allowed me to experiment with scale and material, which helped lead me to new iterations of a project I was working on at the time.