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In Carlos Javier Ortiz’s photo series, black experience of the past and present seems to intermingle and collide.
via The New Yorker: http://www.newyorker.com/culture/photo-booth/a-thousand-midnights-chicago-and-the-legacy-of-the-great-migration
In early 2015, my husband, Carlos Javier Ortiz, began working on “A Thousand Midnights,” a photo series and short film that use the surviving documents of my mother’s family history, juxtaposed with pictures of Chicago’s black communities today, to explore the legacy of the Great Migration a century after it began