Editorial

Nyia has been featured, and hired for various different magazines articles and essays. This page includes hyperlinks to those sources and brief sample images.

Portrait of Bella BAAHS, CHICAGO PORTRAIT, PHOTOGRAPHER, BLACK WOMEN PHOTOGRAPHY.

“With our partners at Zealous, who helped organize the Collab, Teen Vogue asked 11 of the attendees: "What is one thing you know most people think about our current response to violence, and one thing you wish people knew about an alternative way?" Their responses are accompanied by original portraits.”

The Killing of Adam Toledo, Portrait and Documentary Photography , Nyia Sissac, 2020

“The Killing of Adam Toledo and the Colliding Cycles of Violence in Chicago. With shootings in the city on the rise, trust in the police has nearly bottomed out.”

“Beginning with Napster and continuing through Spotify, the nemeses of independent record labels have been legion over the past few decades. The deaths of brick-and-mortar retail chains, including Tower and Borders, have made releasing new music even more of an uphill climb.

Yet Pravda Records has weathered it all and continues to thrive. The Chicago label—which toasts its 38th year with a two-day festival, June 24 and 25, at Sketchbook Brewing in Skokie—has survived shifting public tastes, the rise of online piracy, several changes in dominant format, and the collapse of music sales in physical media.”

“Early in the coronavirus pandemic, Anthony S. Fauci expressed skepticism that deaths in the United States would top 500,000.

He called the public’s fascination with him “surrealistic.” 

And he assured China’s top public health official that “We will get through this together.””