About this photograph, John Edmonds wrote: “I met Jordan Coley in the Bass Library at Yale. . . . The first time we did a shoot, he wore this [Michael] Jordan T-shirt and I found that to be ironic in the best way possible. I asked him to perform this gesture… As someone who is fascinated with encounters, I wanted to restage our meeting and have the image look like a casual passing on the street. You can feel the weight of the Walgreens bag pulling him down, but he reaches up with such effortlessness and grace.” Edmonds questions how the public views young black men, and through his work offers an alternative perspective on black youth, beauty, and masculinity.