Exhibition - Bearing Witness: Photographing Black Families in Baltimore

Exhibition Saturday, August 4 - September 29, 2024

Opening Reception Friday, August 9, 2024; 6pm

Artist Talk Thursday, September 5, 2024; 7pm

Family Photo Day/ Closing Event Saturday, September 28, 2024;

-a panel discussion which allows space for the artists to discuss their work and explore themes of black representation.

Family Photo Day/ Closing Event Saturday, September 28, 2024;2pm

A workshop on how to preserve family photos, digitization station, photo studio for family group pictures

A photography session with a local Black photographer that documents 12-16 Baltimore families and allows them to receive professional family photographs.

Featured Photographers Daisy Brown, John Clark Mayden, I. Henry Phillips, Sr.,I.H. Webster Phillips, III, Brian Pinson, and SHAN Wallace

About Bearing Witness Provocative, insightful, unfiltered.For almost 200 years, Black photographers have intentionally documented Black communities. They have used their cameras and creativity to portray Black people “as they see them” and redress the racialized narratives which are common in popular media. In Baltimore, Maryland, Black photographers have played a critical role in representing lives too seldom celebrated and too often forgotten. With their images featured in spaces ranging from family photo albums to national publications, these artists embody a tradition of witnessing and storytelling from a Black point of view.

The Bearing Witness exhibition highlights the work of six local Black photographers who explore historical and contemporary depictions of Black family life. It features a mix of established and emerging artists whose images of Black Baltimore from the 1950s to the present display how Black folk live, love, struggle, and triumph in their everyday lives.

https://bearingwitnessphotography.com

Host or Publisher The Eubie Blake Center