Photography series · 2021
Down in the Delta
Visual archive of Roosevelt Davenport and his family, former sharecroppers who became landowners on Mississippi’s Quito Plantation, tracing resilience and Black Southern life.

Vanessa Charlot is a photographer and visual storyteller whose work documents identity, memory, and the African diaspora.
Career
Photography
Origin / Ethnicity / Heritage
African American
Additional Languages
English
Pronouns
She/Her
Photography series · 2021
Visual archive of Roosevelt Davenport and his family, former sharecroppers who became landowners on Mississippi’s Quito Plantation, tracing resilience and Black Southern life.
Photography series · 2020
Archival project documenting Black residents of St. Louis in summer 2020, paralleling the life cycle of fire amid COVID-19 and police brutality.