The 2016 special issue of Aperture magazine, themed “Vision & Justice,” won the 2017 Infinity Award from the International Center of Photography in the Critical Writing and Research Category and was made required reading at NYU Tisch School of the Arts that year.    

The issue features a range of artistic contributions and voices across disciplines including, Jennifer Blessing, Maurice Berger, Dawoud Bey, Teju Cole, Ava DuVernay, Awol Erizku, LaToya Ruby Frazier, Henry Louis Gates, Jr., Thelma Golden, Katori Hall, Margo Jefferson, Deana Lawson, Wynton Marsalis, Alicia Hall Moran, Jason Moran, Toyin Ojih Odutola, Nell Irvin Painter, Leigh Raiford, Jamel Shabazz, Lorna Simpson, Salamishah Tillet, Carrie Mae Weems, Deborah Willis, and Bradford Young.    

Coinciding with the issue, students in Lewis’ Harvard University class, Vision & Justice: The Art of Citizenship, contributed online essays on the relationship between images of social unrest and landmark Supreme Court decisions.