The Weekly - June 16, 2020 - 16
The View
L A N I S H A
R E N E E
Atongular
Monique soaks
in the sunshine
during a trip to a
"secret" crag in
Connecticut with
a group of Brooklyn climbers.
B L O U N T
See
What
I See
Lanisha Renee Blount
captures images of the
joy she experiences outside-and sees it as a
beautiful act of resistance.
LANISHA RENEE BLOUNT DID NOT PLAN
on becoming a photographer. She studied
architecture and design in grad school at
Harvard and bought a camera before a trip to
Japan in 2016. Immersed in another culture
for months, she turned to shooting images of
people, landscapes, and urban scenes in blackand-white and color. Back home, she began
to photograph her climbing trips-to Joshua
Tree with her brother and beyond on jaunts
to the crags and camping with friends that
were carefree and full of laughter. That joy
has become what she seeks in all people from
behind her lens, especially in people of color,
who are still frustratingly underrepresented in
outdoor imagery.
"I think the outdoor industry is so much
about summit culture, about how hard
things are, how people are suffering. That
resonates with some people, but when you
are trying to make the outdoors more inclusive and appeal to a broader audience who
may not have felt welcome prior, it doesn't
work," says Blount, who recently moved from
Brooklyn to Oakland, California, and works
as a consultant when she's not shooting. "For
Black people especially, the outdoors has
not felt welcoming. What I am going for is
to make the outdoors look like a warm, fun
thing to do, to make it accessible."
Blount, whose clients include Arc'teryx,
The North Face, and Patagonia, shot these
photos on spec during a trip with climbers
from Brooklyn to a secret crag in Connecticut
in February 2019 and on a road trip from
Oakland to Yosemite's Tuolumne Meadows
last October. The idea was simply to document
16 THE WEEKLY / OUTDOOR RETAILER SUMMER 2020
the carefree spirit of getting out.
"I think being joyful is an act of resistance.
It's reclaiming a space that may not be meant
for you. That's important. Just being outdoors
can be the win, not the summit."
You can see more of Blount's work at
lrblount.com and follow her on Instagram
@urbanclimbr. -Doug Schnitzspahn
Photographs by Lanisha Renee Blount
http://www.lrblount.com
http:// https://www.instagram.com/urbanclimbr/?hl=en
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