Project TYO is a long-term documentary, archival, and public scholarship initiative dedicated to documenting, preserving, and interpreting the hip-hop culture, community, and history of the Greater Tokyo Area, which Ajani Charles began documenting in July 2025.

Formed in Staten Island, New York, in 1992, Wu-Tang Clan emerged as one of the most influential collectives in hip-hop history, with some regarding Wu-Tang as the most iconic collective of hip-hop recording artists in the musical genre’s history, redefining East Coast and hardcore rap with their raw lyricism, entrepreneurial structure, and cinematic production style.

Project T-Dot is a long-term documentary, archival, and public scholarship initiative dedicated to documenting, preserving, and interpreting the hip-hop culture, community, and history of the Greater Toronto Area.

This series of photographs forms part of an ongoing personal body of work by Ajani Charles documenting Shanghai, China, captured during the winter of 2012. The Shanghai project exists within a broader, long-term exploration of China, alongside similar personal projects focused on other regions and cities across the country.

This series of photographs documents Ajani Charles’ time spent with a group of camel trainers in Qatar’s Zekreet desert during a month he lived and worked in the country as a producer.

Ajani Charles originally shot the images in this series to accompany an article he wrote reflecting on the long-term implications of the COVID-19 pandemic, during the early stages of the pandemic, while living and working in the downtown core of Toronto in 2020.

CONTINUUM is a meditative, generative animation and large-scale installation by international contemporary artist Krista Kim, founder of the Techism movement (established in 2014), which advances the convergence of art, technology, and digital humanism.