I am Romero Nance

A self-taught analog and digital photographer from northeastern Wisconsin. I was born in Milwaukee, but at a young age my mother and I moved to a part of the state where, as a black youth, I was in a demographic that represented less than 3% of the population. Since I was a teenager I’ve used photography to both navigate white spaces that were often closed to me, and to tell the stories of other people of color who live in a state where whiteness is the norm. As people of color, we have to add extra layers to our personalities in order to navigate our lives, education, relationships, and careers. Beneath these layers, we are both bound by, and separate from the people and landscapes that surround us. My goal is to lay bare  the moments where people shed those layers, when they have momentarily stopped playing the roles they have to play to fit and are sharing the most vulnerable parts of themselves - their joy, their pain, their suffering, their beauty, and their humanity. In this way, I am offering a bridge by giving other people a glimpse of the true side of  the human beings who they may see everyday, but whom they never truly know.