Beloved is a photography exhibition featuring artist, Karim Brown. Karim is a photographer based in North Philadelphia. With the community and its inhabitants at the forefront of his mind, Brown uses the medium of photography to intimately engage with the diverse ways of life within the Black community that he calls home. Karim’s academic discipline of Black Studies is the foundation of his practice. Drawing inspiration from his scholarly pursuits, Karim uses the camera as an extension of his person, as he intentionally performs the ritual of recording the often-overlooked imagery of the Black mundane. The persistent thought of, ‘how do we, as Black folk, understand and tell the story of ourselves through the Black gaze?’ enables him to depict the Black experience of local Philadelphians.