Photography and Community (Virtual)
About the Event:
Community-based photography provides a lens through which to record the intergenerational visual history of people and places as seen from the artist’s insider perspective. CHF convenes a panel discussion on how artistic concerns—from identity, inclusion and representation, to ethics and consent—relate to the traditions of documentary photography. Join photographers and filmmakers Louis Massiah, Carlos Javier Ortiz, and Wendy Ewald for a conversation about photography for and by community members.
This program is presented in partnership with the Smart Museum of Art at the University of Chicago, in conjunction with the multi-partner, multi-venue exhibition Toward Common Cause: Art, Social Change, and the MacArthur Fellows Program at 40.
[Event tile image courtesy of the artist, Deborah Willis. Untitled, 2010.]
Deborah Willis
Deborah Willis, Ph.D, is university professor and chair of the Department of Photography & Imaging at the Tisch School of the ...
Wendy Ewald
For fifty years Wendy Ewald has collaborated in art projects with children, families, women, and teachers around the world. She wa...
Louis Massiah
Louis Massiah is a documentary filmmaker and the founder of the Scribe Video Center in Philadelphia, a media arts center that prov...
Carlos Javier Ortiz
Carlos Javier Ortiz is a director, cinematographer and documentary photographer who focuses on urban life, gun violence, racism, p...
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[Event tile image description: The event image at the top left of the event page is a photograph by Deborah Willis (Untitled, 2010) of the inside of a beauty salon. In the photograph a woman sits in a chair, her back to the camera, holding a mirror up to her face, while a hairdresser styles her hair. There are three other people in the background of the photograph. Image courtesy of the artist.]