Lorna Simpson is an American Photographer born in Brooklyn in 1960. She is known for creating bold works of African American women and sometimes African American men, questioning conventional notions of race and identity. In ‘Five Day Forecast’the images shows an African american woman. The images has been cropped so that the face is not visible in the image meaning the viewer only see the torso of the women. From a quick glance the images all look identical but after looking each image is different in the way she has her arms crossed, clothing and overall positioning. The photos appear underneath five contiguous frames, labeled above with the days of the workweek, Monday to Friday in a sort of calendar or weather forecast format. Underneath the image is ten plaques two for each image, which read
misdescription, misinformation, misidentify, misdiagnose, misfunction, mistranscribe, misremember, misgauge, misconstrue, and mistranslate.

Simpson said ” I use the figure to examine the ways in which gender and culture shape the interactions, relationships and experiences of our lives in contemporary America.” and that she was exploring what could happen to a Black women within one week.