Join us for the closing event for Bearing Witness: Photographing Black Families in Baltimore with the artists, partners, and curators. The community celebration will include a workshop on preserving family photos, digitization station, and photo studio for family group photos.
On view August 4 through September 29, 2024
Eubie Blake Cultural Center
847 N. Howard Street, Baltimore, MD 21201
Bearing Witness 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.
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.
To learn more about Bearing Witness: Photographing Black Families in Baltimore, visit the exhibition website.