Xhosa is an artist, filmmaker and photographer based in Brooklyn, NY. His work revolves around giving his perspective on the beauty of the Black experience and addressing where it can go narratively. Giving Black life new spaces to occupy that might not have been available before, using the wide open natural spaces of the South as a big inspiration as well as cinematic themes that he absorbs. 
He went to school for filmmaking and truly begun his professional journey in 2020 during the pandemic. In 2021 he released his first photo book titled ‘Beauty Behind the Blackness’. In 2022, he held and curated his 1st group exhibition show in L.A and in 2022 he was also named a member of the Louis Armstrong House museum cohort as a filmmaker in residence. When he isn’t creating, you’ll probably find him at a gallery, thrift store, trying new foods or somewhere in nature. 
When boredom strikes, he makes beats under the pseudonym Xhozy
All Inquiries:
ig: @lemonadeonsundays
Contact for commercial, editorial and print inquiries.
Books:
2021
Beauty Behind The Blackness, Gatekeeper Press, 116 pages, softcover, Oct 28
2020
There Was Time, Then There Wasn’t, Self Published, 40 pages, softcover, Aug 25
Residencies:
2022
Louis Armstrong House Museum Now, Filmmaker-in-Residence
Honors & Awards:
2022
2021

Publications:
VOGUE Italia, 10011 Mag, Collater.al Magazine, Pioneer Works, Headspace Magazine, ESSENCE, CINESTILL Film, Espirit Magazine, Culture Icon TV
Press:
FREE THE WORK | FTW newsletter Feb 2023
Peerspace | Meet our 2021 Space for Change Winners Lifting the voice of BIPOC photographers.
1001mag | Xhosa Fray-Chinn is a photographer, creative director, and filmmaker based in Brooklyn, NY. The artist’s ethereal images center beauty in black experience.
Collater.al | Xhosa Fray Chinn, a sensorial photographer and film maker
Luna Collective | Spotlight: Photographer Xhosa Fray-Chinn Brings a Fresh & Authentic Perspective to his Work
Bushwick Community Darkroom | Feature of the Week: Xhosa-Fray-Chinn
Shoutout LA | Meet Xhosa Fray-Chinn | Photographer & Filmmaker
Exhibitions:
2022
Lemonade On Sundays, Artless Foundation, Los Angeles, CA, January 30-March 27, 2022
2021
Exhibition Göttingen 2021, Le Monde Analogue, Göttingen, Germany, September 14-October 3, 2021