Drew Gardner
Descendants of Black Civil War Heroes Wear Their Heritage With Pride
A bold new photographic project that celebrates Black heroes of the American Civil War asks modern-day Americans to recreate portraits of the 19th-century ancestors in painstakingly accurate fashion. January 2024
Gardener uses period technology for the descendants photography at the Penumbra Tintype Portrait Studio, that specializes in the kind of wet-plate collodion photography used during the Civil War.
Smithsonian Magazine
