When photographer Dawoud Bey stood with his camera, overlooking the waters of Lake Erie in northeastern Ohio, he felt something unexpected. The acclaimed artist had been working on a project to reimagine the history of the Underground Railroad through shooting the imaginary point of view of a fugitive enslaved person moving through the landscape. Due to the inherent secret nature of the Underground Railroad, most of its “stations,” or safehouses, were a mystery. Those unknowns provided Bey with a certain creative openness. On the shore of Lake Erie, he saw…
