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Katie MacDonald and Kyle Schumann of After Architecture, Camp Barker Memorial, May 2019. Washington, DC. Photograph by Renée Ater.
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Photographs by Renée Ater, Adrienne Childs, Yannick Etoundi, Emily Hirsch, Geoffrey Jacobson, Izetta Mobley, Christine Perri, Sally Promey, Nélari Figuoroa Torres, Khahn Vo, Michael Walsh, and Wesley Wofford have been generously shared with Renée Ater with the understanding that the images may be used for educational purposes only and are covered under the CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 license for Contemporary Monuments to the Slave Past. If you wish to reproduce these images for publication, advertising, on a website or blog, on social media, and/or for commercial reasons, you will need written permission from Renée Ater, who can be contacted through email at the University of Maryland.
Updated January 26, 2026.