Tag: Joshua Rashaad McFadden

Announcing the 2020 Aperture Summer Open Artists – Aperture Foundation NY

Announcing the 2020 Aperture Summer Open Artists

At a moment when ideas about truth have been disrupted, these artists consider how photography portrays our experiences of technology, politics, and the social landscape.

via Aperture Foundation NY: https://aperture.org/blog/2020-aperture-summer-open-artists/

Aperture is pleased to announce the participating artists in the 2020 Aperture Summer Open, Information. At a moment when ideas about truth and power have been disrupted, these fourteen artists consider how photography portrays and charts our experiences of technology, politics, and the social landscape, from declassified military archives and CIA conspiracy theories, to encounters with race and memory, to the physical spaces where digital information is concealed from the public eye. Together, they broadcast new ways of viewing our present—and our future.

May 28, 2020
12 African American Photographers You Should Follow | Time.com

12 African American Photographers You Should Follow Right Now

Artists and editors nominated under-the-radar, exciting black photographers

via Time: http://time.com/4673827/black-photographers/

While some artists such as Joshua Rashaad McFadden make use of archival material, others like Jasmine Murrell incorporate sculpture, while Gerald Cyrus’ work is firmly documentary in nature and Shamayim’s is clearly fashion-based.

February 24, 2017