Initially created to mark the magazine’s 125th anniversary,
Vogue’s American Women portfolio has become something of an annual celebration. Over the past four years ago, we’ve invited the photographers we most admire to capture communities across the country, from the salmon fisherwomen on the frosty Kenai Peninsula in Alaska, to the water protectors at Standing Rock in North Dakota, to the sorority sisters of Alpha Kappa Alpha at Spelman College in Atlanta, Georgia. Wide-ranging in scope yet intimate in feel, this extraordinary series has always stood as a life-affirming reminder not just of who we are, but of how far we’ve come.