The Crown and Glory Project

The Crown & Glory Project is a dynamic and ongoing photo series that celebrates underrepresented emerging young creatives within marginalized communities of New York City. Spearheaded by Pri, a photographer, teaching artist, and founder of Honeydark Creative Studios, this project challenges creative youth across New York City to build DIY crowns using unconventional and found materials that represent their unique and artistic personal identities. In addition to being models, the participants are taught basic photography skills by Pri, and then act as photographers themselves, creating photo portraits of each other based on what they have learned. This selection of images features a combination of photographs taken by Pri and by her students. Each photo celebrates the individuality and self-expression of our future creative leaders.