Every Hard Sweetness

In Every Hard Sweetness, Carter-Jones chronicles Civil Rights' era atrocities through the story ofher family's experience with an all-too-common practice in which Black men were wrongfullyincarcerated in institutions for the criminally insane. The result is a stunning work reflecting onrace, criminalization, and the devastating consequences of a Black father's incarceration on hispsyche and family, specifically his Black daughter. Told through a mixture of photography,ekphrasis, and erasure, Carter-Jones' powerful collection creates an extraordinary record of herfamily's life at a time of great suffering and upheaval.