The photographer and filmmaker Evangeline Mensah-Agyekum is no newcomer to conversations about Black women’s self-esteem and how it is serially buffeted by the compound effects of patriarchy, social media, youth culture, and racism.
In her still work and previous short film projects, the self-taught Mensah-Agyekum has proven herself a master of portraiture and a composer of striking images; Pittsburgh residents may remember her work as part of the Emerging Visions exhibition in 2023 that brought “the gallery to the street” by displaying the work of three emerging local artists in street-level downtown storefronts. More recently, her work was exhibited at the 2024 Distillery artist-in-residency exhibition at Brew House Arts.
The point of this film is to highlight the beauty in aging to bring it to a more neutral space.
Mensah-Agyekum’s new documentary, No Age to Beauty, expands her range and reach as a storyteller by offering a sustained meditation on the aging process, honing in on …