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The black body is at the nexus of African and Afro-descendant experiences. Whether displaced, exhibited, or scrutinized, it carries the history of multiple migrations from Africa to the Americas and Europe. This article examines the corporeal geography designed by African, Afro-American, and Afro-European photographers such as Carrie Mae Weems, Ingrid Mwangi, Rotimi Fani-Kayode, or Kudzanai Chiurai. It studies their overlapping representations of the black body, seen as a metaphor of an Atlantic positionality and even as a black form of cosmopolitanism. The point is to understand how images reshape the body as a site of interaction and representation of a connected black history, for which the Atlantic Ocean is the primary space of creation.