Ebony's profile
Ebony DeGrace is a Baltimore-based photographer whose work centers lived experience, memory, the everyday landscapes of Black life, and the other-worldly/spiritual. Her practice began in middle school through black-and-white film photography, where she developed a commitment to candid observation and quiet documentation.
Working primarily in natural light, Ebony creates images that move between documentary intimacy and perceptual exploration. She describes her photographic approach as both cinematic lifestyle and cinematic experimentalism, using mood, light, and atmosphere to shape presence within the frame. Whether documenting unscripted moments or creating abstract and surreal compositions, her work remains attentive and grounded in lived reality.
Her experimental photographs pursue the ethereal and dreamlike while maintaining stillness and emotional clarity. Rather than departing from documentary practice, these images extend it, exploring interior states, memory, and perception through layered light, shadow, and abstraction.
With over two decades of image-making, Ebony explores how Black space holds memory and how culture is carried through everyday life. Her photographs embrace both immediacy and stillness, capturing moments when performance falls away and the ordinary reveals something sacred. Through an attentive and atmospheric lens, she documents community and preserves lived memory.
