Endia Beal is an African American North Carolina based photographer. While attending Yale School of Art to receive he masters, she created a body of work which explores the experience minority women have within the corporate space. In her series of photographic portraits, Can I Touch It?, Endia Beal confronts what society defines what "looking professional" in corporate America is. In this series she approached white women in their forties, some strangers and some colleagues, and gave them typically black hairstyles. She then took their corporate portraits resulting in a body of work that explores the idea that individuals change themselves to fit certain environments.
Although the series was executed from the perspective of a young black woman in corporate, when asked how the women in the photographs responded to the project Beal explained that they shared similar stories with her as well. She expressed that she learned that it was not only a minority thing, but a woman thing as well.
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