Nona Faustine is a Photographer and Visual Artist born and raised in Brooklyn, New York. She is a graduate of the School of Visual Arts and The International Center of Photography at Bard College MFA program. Her work focuses on history, identity, representation, and evoking a critical and emotional understanding of the past and proposes a deeper examination of contemporary racial and gender stereotypes.

Faustine's images have received worldwide acclaim and have been published in a variety of national and international media outlets such as Artforum, New York Times, Huffington Post, Hyperallergic, BOMB Magazine, New Yorker Magazine. Faustine's work has been exhibited at Harvard University, The Studio Museum of Harlem, The African American Museum in Philadelphia, Schomburg Center for Black Research, The International Center for Photography, Brooklyn Museum, MoMA, Saint John The Divine, Instituto Tomie Ohtako in Sao Paulo, among other institutions. Her work is in the collections of the Brooklyn Museum, Studio Museum of Harlem, MoMA, International Center of Photography, Baltimore Museum, Los Angeles County Museum, SFMoMa, Carnegie Museum, Portland Museum of Art, Museum of Fine Arts Boston, David C, Driskell Center at Maryland State University among many other institutions.