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Jonathan Mercedes is a portrait photographer. Born and raised in The Bronx, New York, he is a Dominican-American first generation image-maker focused on documenting black and queer diasporic identities. He is a film photographer with experience developing, scanning, and printing 120 and 35mm format film. Graduated from Cornell University with a bachelor’s degree in Comparative Literature, Mercedes hopes to depict the intersection of blackness, spirituality, and queerness in the African diaspora.