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Art & Incarceration: A Panel Discussion
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Mon, 26 Feb 2018 17:46:58 +0000
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Most prisons and jails across the United States do not allow prisoners to have access to cameras. At a moment when 2.2 million people are incarcerated in the US, 3.8 […]
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Stephen Tourlentes, Wyoming State Death House Prison, Rawlins, Wyoming, 2000Courtesy the artist and Carroll and Sons, Boston
Most prisons and jails across the United States do not allow prisoners to have access to cameras. At a moment when 2.2 million people are incarcerated in the US, 3.8 million people are on probation, and 870,000 former prisoners are on parole, how can images tell the story of mass incarceration when the imprisoned don’t have control over their own representation? How can photographs visualize a reality that disproportionately affects people of color, and, for many, remains outside of view?
Lucas Foglia, Vanessa and Lauren watering, GreenHouse Program, 2014. Courtesy the artist and Fredericks & Freiser Gallery, New York
This exhibition coincides with the publication of “Prison Nation,” Aperture magazine’s spring issue organized with the scholar Nicole R. Fleetwood, an expert on art’s relation to incarceration. Addressing the unique role photography plays in creating a visual record of a national crisis, this exhibition and issue are accompanied by a series of six public programs—featuring speakers such as Nigel Poor, Aliya Hana Hussain, Keith Calhoun, Chandra McCormich, Jamel Shabazz, Deborah Luster, Bruce Jackson, Shani Jamila, Jesse Krimes, Sable Elyse Smith, Joseph Rodriguez, and more—all to take place at Aperture Foundation’s gallery.
Photographer unknown, Prison Rock Band, June 26, 1975. Courtesy Nigel Poor, San Quentin Archive and Haines Gallery, San Francisco
Panel Discussion: Art & Incarceration
Deborah Luster, Layla “Roach” Roberts (Inquisitor), fromthe series Passion Play, 2012–13. Courtesy the artist and Jack Shainman Gallery, New York
How does incarceration impact art making for incarcerated artists and non-incarcerated artists concerned with the criminal justice system? This panel brings together a range of artists and figures who facilitate art projects with incarcerated individuals. This discussion is moderated by Nicole R. Fleetwood, contributing guest editor of Aperture’s “Prison Nation” magazine with Panelists – Jesse Krimes, artist and activist, Aliya Hana Hussain of Center for Constitutional Rights, an attorney who represents detainees/artists at Guantanamo Bay and Joseph Rodriguez, photographer.
Join the Discussion
Wednesday, February 28 at 7pm
Aperture Gallery and Bookstore
547 West 27th Street New York, NY
During our Digital Diaspora Family Reunion roadshow (DDFR) at Yale University, we encountered Yale alum and entrepreneur Akintunde Ahmad who shared the experience of his older brother being incarcerated. Seeing his brother sent to prison didn’t stop his family continuing to support and love his brother. Check out what he had to say below:
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Celebrating St. Clair Bourne at the Metrograph
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Mon, 12 Feb 2018 19:23:51 +0000
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In honor of his 75th birthday, Metrograph pays tribute to St. Clair Bourne, Harlem-born and Brooklyn-bred filmmaker, writer, activist, teacher, and organizer. Screenings include selections from a career dedicated to […]
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In honor of his 75th birthday, Metrograph pays tribute to St. Clair Bourne, Harlem-born and Brooklyn-bred filmmaker, writer, activist, teacher, and organizer. Screenings include selections from a career dedicated to portraying what was ignored by mainstream media representation, along with work from a number of the many filmmakers Bourne mentored—including Thomas Allen Harris’ Twelve Disciples of Nelson Mandela—and many other projects that came to fruition due to Bourne’s engagement, ingenuity, and passion.
Bourne produced an essential chronicle of African-American life, from his early days as a producer, director, and cameraman for the pioneering series Black Journal (alongside colleagues Lou Potter, William Greaves, Kent Garrett, and Madeline Anderson), to the founding of the Black Documentary Collective (BDC) and the journal Chamba Notes. He passed away in 2007, a towering figure in the documentary film world. Metrograph’s series on St. Clair Bourne opens on Friday, February 16 and runs until Monday, February 19.
TWELVE DISCIPLES OF NELSON MANDELA
Thomas Allen Harris / 2005 / 75 mins / Digital
Monday, February 19 7:00 pm
Producer/writer Don Perry will be in attendance Monday night for a special introduction followed by a post screening discussion and explains the tie of themes between the film and the new public television series Family Pictures USA hosted by Thomas Allen Harris.
“I had the idea to invite young people, neighbors of these anti-apartheid heroes, to engage with Lee’s album and re-enact the stories that led to their exile. It was the return of his family album to Bloemfontein that became a transformative experience for everyone – the young people took personal journeys performing the histories of their city, their neighbors and their country and the Disciples were re-united with their own personal story seeing themselves now in a larger public story of the country and the liberation struggle. This synthesis of archive and remembrance, of myth and origin, changed the national family album of South Africa.”
“I thought, how could I take this experience and use it to create an American family album? How do I help get the images of lost, suppressed and hidden stories? How do we get images from the boxes in their attics or under beds or hard drives or on their phones to build a collective album to help us to understand who WE are as Americans?” – Thomas Allen Harris
Watch an excerpt of the film below!
A lesser-known story from the struggle to end apartheid in South Africa about the generation of young men who left their country to clandestinely build the African National Congress (ANC) and spread its liberation message. One of many great films by Harris on which St. Clair Bourne advised and assisted, who shares the common refrain from filmmakers of “the extent of appreciation for [Saint’s] honesty, activism, support and nurturance of their work and careers.”
The showtimes are now online and advance tickets are available for purchase (here)!
Check out our blog for more info about TWELVE DISCIPLES OF NELSON MANDELA.
Thomas Allen Harris Speaks at Memorial for St. Clair Bourne at the Riverside Church in NYC
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Small Talk with Mark S. Lee with Guest Don Perry
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Fri, 26 Jan 2018 18:59:43 +0000
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On Sunday January 14, my Executive Producer/writer of Family Pictures USA, Don Perry joined the weekly CBS Radio podcast, “Small Talk with Mark S. Lee” along with other guests: Kurt Rankin, […]
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On Sunday January 14, my Executive Producer/writer of Family Pictures USA, Don Perry joined the weekly CBS Radio podcast, “Small Talk with Mark S. Lee” along with other guests: Kurt Rankin, Senior Economist, PNC Bank, Dana White, Founder and Owner, Paralee Boyd, and Karen Hudson Samuels, Executive Director, WGPR TV Historical Society. The podcast covered various topics concerning the state of Detroit’s economy, including upcoming projects and businesses coming to the Motor City.
Host Mark Lee spoke with Don about Family Pictures USA, for which my trusted production team filmed in Detroit in the summer of 2017 in partnership with over 20 cultural, educational, media and religious institutions around the city, including local television station Detroit Public TV. It was through one of the community photo sharing events we organized.
“If we really want to understand how we got to where we are today, then you can go to a number of places… one of the places that we think has been overlooked is the family photo album.” – Don Perry
Don talks of the unifying effect of bringing a community together through family photographs and flipping the stereotypical perspective of the frontier city that carried so much rich history and culture. There were common themes of entrepreneurship and the automotive industry as well as interesting backstories that involved a famous local recording studio that carried the blueprint for the Motown Sound before Berry Gordy started and a young upcoming Gospel singer, Aretha Franklin.
Mark also recounts his experience sharing his father’s influential story supporting local African American businesses and churches that are still standing in Detroit today! Watch a piece of his interview on Family Pictures USA:
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Creating Art from the Archives: “About Face: The Evolution of a Black Producer”
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Fri, 08 Dec 2017 18:45:51 +0000
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Thomas Allen Harris looks back at 28 years of HIV/AIDS activism in newly released short film, “About Face: The Evolution of a Black Producer.” On World AIDS Day 2017, Visual […]
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Thomas Allen Harris looks back at 28 years of HIV/AIDS activism in newly released short film, “About Face: The Evolution of a Black Producer.”
On World AIDS Day 2017, Visual AIDS opened its 28th iteration of Day With(out) Art, an annual program that seeks to increase awareness of the ongoing HIV/AIDS crisis. This year’s program, titled ALTERNATE ENDINGS, RADICAL BEGINNINGS, was curated by Erin Christovale and Vivian Crockett and features challenging, innovative work from 8 black artists whose lives are deeply impacted by the ongoing epidemic. ALTERNATE ENDINGS, RADICAL BEGINNINGS is being screened in over 100 venues worldwide.
Still from “About Face: The Evolution of a Black Producer” (2017)
Thomas Allen Harris’ new short film, “About Face: The Evolution of a Black Producer”, opens the program. The piece looks at a series of public television programs Harris produced on HIV/AIDS from 1989-1991, which brought folks who were previously ignored by mainstream media to the core of public discussion, and an essay he’d written around that time, published in Black Popular Culture (edited by Gina Dent).
Still of Vilma Santiago from “About Face: The Evolution of a Black Producer”
Thomas, raised by activists in the Bronx and East Africa, felt an urgency to produce these programs as “friends and colleagues were dying without representation”. Though pushback from the channel’s executives and the constraints of corporate media ultimately led the artist to suspend work in public television, Thomas returns to the work in the context of the contemporary crisis with a continuing sense of urgency: Of those in the US diagnosed with HIV today, 44% are black. The need for representation remains as critical as ever.
At the program’s marquee screening Monday, December 4th at the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Thomas Allen Harris participated in a post-screening talkback with artists Cheryl Dunye and Ellen Spiro and program curators Erin Christovale and Vivian Crockett. The talkback focused on the importance of intergenerational dialogue in the context of resistance and the power of the archive.
“I didn’t remember what was in all those archives. [This project] opened up space for me to look in the archive… to actually go into the archive and do a kind of remix of it,” Thomas Allen Harris shared with the Schomburg audience, “It’s like making a psychic, spiritual date with yourself.”
Cheryl Dunye, fellow Academy member and longtime colleague of Thomas, said, “Activism is about collaboration. One person can’t fight a battle alone.”
“It’s about people in physical spaces, and highlighting that,” Thomas added. “Members of my ancestral church are here, Bethel AME. They helped get the word out. 20 years ago, I don’t know if Bethel AME church would be here at this kind of screening. So I just think we’ve changed in many different ways. Things have opened up.”
Thomas returns to the realm of public television with his latest project, Family Pictures USA, which he produces and hosts. The show explores neighborhoods & cities through the lens of the family photo album, enlarging a collective understanding of history and identity. Thomas connects participants to an interactive audience and to each other, using their archives as a starting point. Family Pictures USA is currently running a crowd-funding campaign to bring the pilot series, featuring the city of Detroit, to national broadcast in 2018.
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YOU Can Help Bring Family Pictures USA to National Broadcast!
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Thu, 07 Dec 2017 20:28:50 +0000
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Join Our Crowdfunding Campaign to Complete the Pilot of Family Pictures USA! “Once you see America through family pictures, you will never see this country the same way again.” Family […]
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Join Our Crowdfunding Campaign to Complete the Pilot of Family Pictures USA!
“Once you see America through family pictures, you will never see this country the same way again.”
Family Pictures USA is a new travel-style television show that will focus on bringing people together to share family pictures and stories in a highly interactive and engaging experience known as Community Photo Sharing. The show will be a series of filmed CPS events with hosts and producers guiding characters through personal stories in which their collected photos serve as storytelling tools. We are redefining the family photo album in the digital age and creating a new purpose for our old pictures!
We’ve had incredible SUPPORT thus far! Thank You everyone who has been a part of it! In order to continue the movement, we need YOUR HELP. Through Indiegogo, we have created a funding platform that includes a list of perks so we can give back to YOU!
Host Thomas Allen Harris leads Family Pictures USA to explore neighborhoods and cities through people’s family photo albums for a true “people’s history.” Our pilot series kicks off in Detroit where we interviewed hundreds of families and gathered thousands of photographs. We need your help towards completing a 1 hour pilot episode for national broadcast!
Family Pictures USA creates a healing movement, using family photographs to better understand ourselves and others across differences of race, religion, class, gender, orientation, and ability. In an increasingly fractured world, the family photo album may be the key to bringing together our fractured souls and exploring the power of the visual to re-imagine a more compassionate future.
Family Pictures USA will BROADCAST nationally on Public Television in 2018. Each episode will illuminate connections among and between individual family narratives to create an inclusive new Digital American Family Album. Our goal is to transform strangers into family by exposing threads of history that enrich and enlarge our understanding of our nation and its diverse people.
Our VISION is to build community by illuminating our shared values and experiences as human beings.
Our crowdfunding GOAL is set at $35,000 USD. This will allow us to get in the edit room to complete the pilot for national broadcast. We’ve added several different donation categories. Each one is accompanied by a perk you will receive as part of your support!
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Memoirs of a Father with Philip Rosenbaum
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Fri, 17 Nov 2017 01:51:16 +0000