On the Ground: Afropunk Festival 2022

Since its inception at the Brooklyn Academy of Music in 2005, the annual Afropunk Festival has expanded its focus and its reach far beyond the Black alternative-music fans who gave it its name. At this year's flagship event, held at Commodore Barry Park last week, Burna Boy headlined a packed lineup that also featured the Roots, Doechii, Earl Sweatshirt, and Tierra Whack among many others. The audience itself, captured by Taiye Godbody, offered just as much to look at as the performers, celebrating the return to Brooklyn for the first time since 2019 with a range of vivid and emphatic style statements, a reminder that there's more than one way to steal the show.

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