The White House just released the first portrait of Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson after her historic, bipartisan Senate confirmation. We chatted with Lelanie Foster, the Bronx photographer behind the image
Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson, as photographed by Lelanie Foster. Photo: Lelanie Foster/ The White House just released the first portrait of Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson after her historic, bipartisan Senate confirmation. The portrait was taken Friday morning by Lelanie Foster, a photographer from the Bronx.
“My photographic work explores themes and complexities of identity, beauty and womanhood through the lens of my experiences as a Black, Caribbean, multi-ethnic, Latina growing up in New York City,” she wrote on a website called Lensculture.You’re calling me from inside the White House after being a part of history by photographing Judge Jackson right before her confirmation as the first Black woman in the Supreme Court.
It was a complete shock, and then everything kind of started to settle in, and I felt all the honor and gratitude. Then came the pressure of like, All right, get this shot. I started thinking about all the things that I wanted to say in the image and all the things that I wanted to portray in it. These things come together so quickly; it’s different from other shoots where you have so much planning involved.
I had some Sade playin,g and I asked her if she wanted to listen to that. For me, Sade always calms me before a shoot, and it’s a nice vibe, and she was loving it. She was like, “Let’s stick to this.” There was a song that came on that she started really feeling and dancing too. I’m so mad I can’t remember which one it was, but we played Sade for the entire 45 minutes.
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