Rodney E Jones II is a photographer and visual artist from Baltimore, MD. He received his BFA in photography from Pratt Institute in 2013. He has worked with fashion photographers Robert Clyde Grimma, Matt Salacuse and Sterling Batson and artist Hank Willis Thomas. He has been a guest teacher at Pridelines in Miami and a freelance photographer for The TMI Project. His work explores representation, sexuality, race and gender. He is currently photographing his on going portrait series: “Melanated: a series of Beautiful Black People’