Black Men Missing Missing Black Men
"Art is Business"
This activation features the B&W images of a family of professional photographers. While they captured the moments of life and events for family, friends, and clients this candid shot marks the passages on the other side of the lens documenting the life of family, fatherhood and the fate of our communities. The story illustrated through one family emulates the sentiments of us all.
The team sought to use the full depth of the gallery space to communicate the passage of time and the inevitable passing of the family patriarch. The perpetual loss throughout our community.
“The Wakunda proverb suggests: A man who has not prepared his children for his own death has failed his family.”
The theme of Social Justice and the question, where are we now? are answered internally through one family's travails and externally through bold full-color graphic design posters that billboard the exterior boarded windows of the space and illustrate the modern icons of our century. The future is in living color and the photographer's son is an Illustrator.
Team: Artist, Paula Robinson: Project Manager, Michael "Koto" Thomas: Program Manager, Walter Freeman: Design, Production & Installation, Larissa Johnson
Artist Talk, panel discussion- Overton Hygenic Building,
3619 - 3623 S. State Street, Chicago IL 5pm - 8pm
This activation features the B&W images of a family of professional photographers. While they captured the moments of life and events for family, friends, and clients this candid shot marks the passages on the other side of the lens documenting the life of family, fatherhood and the fate of our communities. The story illustrated through one family emulates the sentiments of us all.
The team sought to use the full depth of the gallery space to communicate the passage of time and the inevitable passing of the family patriarch. The perpetual loss throughout our community.
“The Wakunda proverb suggests: A man who has not prepared his children for his own death has failed his family.”
The theme of Social Justice and the question, where are we now? are answered internally through one family's travails and externally through bold full-color graphic design posters that billboard the exterior boarded windows of the space and illustrate the modern icons of our century. The future is in living color and the photographer's son is an Illustrator.
Team: Artist, Paula Robinson: Project Manager, Michael "Koto" Thomas: Program Manager, Walter Freeman: Design, Production & Installation, Larissa Johnson
