Walker Bankson is an American artist, photographer, woodworker, and organizer whose practice centers on long-term collaboration with underrepresented communities across the American South. Drawing from his experience as a union organizer, his work explores how history is performed, suppressed, and fictionalized within contested spaces, using photography and education as tools for collective storytelling and exchange. For the past five years, Bankson has returned to his former high school in Wilmington, North Carolina, where he leads photography workshops and collaborates with students to document their experiences within a community shaped by racial segregation and inequality. His work examines the tensions between adolescence, place, and institutional infrastructure while creating opportunities for young people to represent their own experiences through image-making. Bankson is a 2025 PhotoWork Junior Fellow, a recipient of the 2024 Anthropologie x YoungArts Leading with Creativity Award, and a two-time YoungArts National Award winner. His work has been exhibited in Atlanta, Richmond, Montgomery, and New York, with an upcoming solo exhibition at Wolfgang Gallery, Atlanta, in 2027.