Black Lives Always Mattered
Saturday, October 17 - 3:30PM to 4:15PM
I've always been interested in documentary photography. I believe it started when I was four or five years and my older, wiser sister revealed that we as Black peoples were once slaves. From that moment, I knew that living my life had to show reality. I was also drawn to the NY Daily News paper's double spread of black and white photography.
My time as a photojournalist was well before the Covid-19 Pandemic and the brutal murder of George Floyd which enforced global support of the Black Lives Matter Movement. I thought about the communities around me that influenced my photography and they were vast. I thought about activism and my role in it since Francis Lewis High School, challenging the Vietnam War in Central Park. Then there were the various protest marches in the nation's capital, Mumia Abu-Jamal, Million Women and Million Youth Marches, Haitian Rallies and the Rockland County Democratic Party to Elect Barack Obama, Undoing Racism and NAACP's bus trip to President Barack Obama's 2009 Inauguration. I pondered the many revolutionaries and activists that deserved my camera's attention and pulled those images from my archives.
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