How could we start the Vision & Justice Book Series, discussed in the New York Times, without a tribute to the work of beloved, landmark critic and curator, Maurice Berger? The look on Alicia Keys and Swizz Beats face says it all. In the arts, we have long relied on his words and vision. I was torn apart when he died of covid in 2020 very early on. His was the voice we needed. At the time, sequestered in our homes, the importance of seeing could not have been more clear. We were transfixed by images of racial injustice and inequity. The main organ for public discussions about these images for decades seemed gone. In the wake of Maurice’s passing has emerged new energy to carry his torch. Deb Willis, Leigh Raiford and I are thrilled to be co-publishing the collection of his Race Stories in the New York Times with Aperture in October 2024. It will be the first volume in the Vision & Justice Book Series, followed by books on the work of Coreen Simpson and Doug Harris. Thank you to the Aperture team and our stunning group of advisors. We miss you, Maurice, and love you so. Link to pre-order the book is on Aperture’s site. Link in bio
My second article for harvard was just published about @visionandjustice taught by the incredible @sarahelizabethlewis1 !! 📸📝 It was an honor to work with Professor Lewis and these incredible students over the past semester to expand upon what we learned in the classroom and bring my, and their, photographic vision to life. Thank you to everyone who made this possible (shoutout @stephanie_blair_mitchell – could not have done it without you) 🙂 Check out the link in my bio to read the article and learn more about V J and these students 😸😸
My second article for harvard was just published about @visionandjustice taught by the incredible @sarahelizabethlewis1 !! 📸📝 It was an honor to work with Professor Lewis and these incredible students over the past semester to expand upon what we learned in the classroom and bring my, and their, photographic vision to life. Thank you to everyone who made this possible (shoutout @stephanie_blair_mitchell – could not have done it without you) 🙂 Check out the link in my bio to read the article and learn more about V J and these students 😸😸
My second article for harvard was just published about @visionandjustice taught by the incredible @sarahelizabethlewis1 !! 📸📝 It was an honor to work with Professor Lewis and these incredible students over the past semester to expand upon what we learned in the classroom and bring my, and their, photographic vision to life. Thank you to everyone who made this possible (shoutout @stephanie_blair_mitchell – could not have done it without you) 🙂 Check out the link in my bio to read the article and learn more about V J and these students 😸😸
My second article for harvard was just published about @visionandjustice taught by the incredible @sarahelizabethlewis1 !! 📸📝 It was an honor to work with Professor Lewis and these incredible students over the past semester to expand upon what we learned in the classroom and bring my, and their, photographic vision to life. Thank you to everyone who made this possible (shoutout @stephanie_blair_mitchell – could not have done it without you) 🙂 Check out the link in my bio to read the article and learn more about V J and these students 😸😸
My second article for harvard was just published about @visionandjustice taught by the incredible @sarahelizabethlewis1 !! 📸📝 It was an honor to work with Professor Lewis and these incredible students over the past semester to expand upon what we learned in the classroom and bring my, and their, photographic vision to life. Thank you to everyone who made this possible (shoutout @stephanie_blair_mitchell – could not have done it without you) 🙂 Check out the link in my bio to read the article and learn more about V J and these students 😸😸
My second article for harvard was just published about @visionandjustice taught by the incredible @sarahelizabethlewis1 !! 📸📝 It was an honor to work with Professor Lewis and these incredible students over the past semester to expand upon what we learned in the classroom and bring my, and their, photographic vision to life. Thank you to everyone who made this possible (shoutout @stephanie_blair_mitchell – could not have done it without you) 🙂 Check out the link in my bio to read the article and learn more about V J and these students 😸😸
My second article for harvard was just published about @visionandjustice taught by the incredible @sarahelizabethlewis1 !! 📸📝 It was an honor to work with Professor Lewis and these incredible students over the past semester to expand upon what we learned in the classroom and bring my, and their, photographic vision to life. Thank you to everyone who made this possible (shoutout @stephanie_blair_mitchell – could not have done it without you) 🙂 Check out the link in my bio to read the article and learn more about V J and these students 😸😸
Of all wonders of this stunning world, the love we create in it is the most wondrous of all. Remembering this slice of heaven from the island of Montserrat where from ancestors are from and their winks from the beyond. Walk into rooms visualizing all that made you possible and dear friend said. Yes, yes, indeed. And we all make each other possible, with kindnesses and caring and compassion seen and unseen. A little love note to anyone seeing this post. you’re got this!
What an honor to be asked to deliver the commencement address for Pratt Institute at Radio City Music Hall in May and receive an Honorary Degree on behalf of the Vision and Justice initiative. Wow! Thinking of all of the ancestors who I will bring up with me when I speak, and so excited to celebrate and join the class of 2024 at Pratt!!
What an honor to be asked to deliver the commencement address for Pratt Institute at Radio City Music Hall in May and receive an Honorary Degree on behalf of the Vision and Justice initiative. Wow! Thinking of all of the ancestors who I will bring up with me when I speak, and so excited to celebrate and join the class of 2024 at Pratt!!
Love is a method and the only way. For all that we discussed about art and politics, and it always came back to that, as Hank Willis Thomas said and lives in his art and life. Total joy hanging my (no-insta) dear friend in my @visionandjustice class and at the IOP at Harvard on Monday.
Love is a method and the only way. For all that we discussed about art and politics, and it always came back to that, as Hank Willis Thomas said and lives in his art and life. Total joy hanging my (no-insta) dear friend in my @visionandjustice class and at the IOP at Harvard on Monday.
Love is a method and the only way. For all that we discussed about art and politics, and it always came back to that, as Hank Willis Thomas said and lives in his art and life. Total joy hanging my (no-insta) dear friend in my @visionandjustice class and at the IOP at Harvard on Monday.
Love is a method and the only way. For all that we discussed about art and politics, and it always came back to that, as Hank Willis Thomas said and lives in his art and life. Total joy hanging my (no-insta) dear friend in my @visionandjustice class and at the IOP at Harvard on Monday.
Love is a method and the only way. For all that we discussed about art and politics, and it always came back to that, as Hank Willis Thomas said and lives in his art and life. Total joy hanging my (no-insta) dear friend in my @visionandjustice class and at the IOP at Harvard on Monday.
Love is a method and the only way. For all that we discussed about art and politics, and it always came back to that, as Hank Willis Thomas said and lives in his art and life. Total joy hanging my (no-insta) dear friend in my @visionandjustice class and at the IOP at Harvard on Monday.
Love is a method and the only way. For all that we discussed about art and politics, and it always came back to that, as Hank Willis Thomas said and lives in his art and life. Total joy hanging my (no-insta) dear friend in my @visionandjustice class and at the IOP at Harvard on Monday.
Love is a method and the only way. For all that we discussed about art and politics, and it always came back to that, as Hank Willis Thomas said and lives in his art and life. Total joy hanging my (no-insta) dear friend in my @visionandjustice class and at the IOP at Harvard on Monday.
Love is a method and the only way. For all that we discussed about art and politics, and it always came back to that, as Hank Willis Thomas said and lives in his art and life. Total joy hanging my (no-insta) dear friend in my @visionandjustice class and at the IOP at Harvard on Monday.
The New York Times announced Coreen Simpson’s forthcoming monograph with our new Vision & Justice publishing imprint and she served in her portrait. That’s her. As Coreen Simpson said, she deserves a book with gravitas on her work. She has for decades. The aim of the Vision and Justice Book Series is to correct injustices like these. To change the narrative about who counts and who belongs, you need to protect the libraries from erasures. From omissions. There is good reason for why they are such a battleground today. The aim of Vision and Justice Book Series, in partnership with Aperture Foundation, is to center the unheralded, yet landmark work of Black artists, scholars, and writers whose work has been central to understanding the role of images in generating equity and justice in America. Deborah Willis, Leigh Raiford, and I are excited to be launching the Vision and Justice Book Series with an extraordinary advisory team and editors at Aperture. The V&J series commences with three titles that celebrate a vanguard of image-makers and artistic legacies: Race Stories: Essays on the Power of Images, the first posthumous collection of writings by cultural historian, curator, and writer Maurice Berger (1956–2020); and two monographs that salute the unheralded, yet foundational work of Doug Harris and Coreen Simpson. This portrait of Coreen Simpson at home in Brooklyn is courtesy of The New York Times. Photo: Elias Williams. #visionandjustice #coreensimpson #mauriceberger #dougharris #photography
One of the gifts of my family is that I was taught a real reverence for the ancestors, and for love as a force—the main force for creating life. To think, we are here because of the love: between two people or the love that they found amidst it all inspires me so. So happy to be back on the island of my ancestors in Montserrat, a tiny, tiny island in the Caribbean , to touch the ground where they walked as I finish a project that has taken over a decade of my life. I love making this time to thank them for the love that made me, and for those acts of love that make us all. James Baldwin let us know: “This is why one must say Yes to life and embrace it whenever it is found … […] For nothing is fixed, forever and forever and forever, it is not fixed; the earth is always shifting, the light is always changing, the sea does not cease to grind down rock. Generations do not cease to be born, and we are responsible to them because we are the only witnesses they have. The sea rises, the light fails, lovers cling to each other, and children cling to us. The moment we cease to hold each other, the moment we break faith with one another, the sea engulfs us and the light goes out.” —Nothing Personal
One of the gifts of my family is that I was taught a real reverence for the ancestors, and for love as a force—the main force for creating life. To think, we are here because of the love: between two people or the love that they found amidst it all inspires me so. So happy to be back on the island of my ancestors in Montserrat, a tiny, tiny island in the Caribbean , to touch the ground where they walked as I finish a project that has taken over a decade of my life. I love making this time to thank them for the love that made me, and for those acts of love that make us all. James Baldwin let us know: “This is why one must say Yes to life and embrace it whenever it is found … […] For nothing is fixed, forever and forever and forever, it is not fixed; the earth is always shifting, the light is always changing, the sea does not cease to grind down rock. Generations do not cease to be born, and we are responsible to them because we are the only witnesses they have. The sea rises, the light fails, lovers cling to each other, and children cling to us. The moment we cease to hold each other, the moment we break faith with one another, the sea engulfs us and the light goes out.” —Nothing Personal
One of the gifts of my family is that I was taught a real reverence for the ancestors, and for love as a force—the main force for creating life. To think, we are here because of the love: between two people or the love that they found amidst it all inspires me so. So happy to be back on the island of my ancestors in Montserrat, a tiny, tiny island in the Caribbean , to touch the ground where they walked as I finish a project that has taken over a decade of my life. I love making this time to thank them for the love that made me, and for those acts of love that make us all. James Baldwin let us know: “This is why one must say Yes to life and embrace it whenever it is found … […] For nothing is fixed, forever and forever and forever, it is not fixed; the earth is always shifting, the light is always changing, the sea does not cease to grind down rock. Generations do not cease to be born, and we are responsible to them because we are the only witnesses they have. The sea rises, the light fails, lovers cling to each other, and children cling to us. The moment we cease to hold each other, the moment we break faith with one another, the sea engulfs us and the light goes out.” —Nothing Personal
