Join artists Rahim Fortune, Wendy Ewald, and Jim Goldberg for a conversation about the meaning of community portraiture in Southern photography. Dr. Sarah Kennel, who is VMFA’s Aaron Siskind Curator of Photography and Director of the Raysor Center, and Ashley Kistler, an independent curator and writer, will lead the discussion.
Dr. Kennel is curator of the exhibition A Long Arc: Photography and the American South since 1845, which features photographs by the artists participating in this conversation.
Livestream will be available.
Image Billy and Minzly, Buda, Texas, 2020, printed 2024, Rahim Fortune (American, born 1994), Gelatin Silver print, courtesy of Sash Wolf Projects. _________________________________________________
Participating Artists Rahim Fortune was raised in Chickasaw Nation of Oklahoma. His documentary photo practice focuses on culture, geography and self-expression in the American landscape. He currently lives and works between Austin, Texas, and Brooklyn, New York.
Wendy Ewald has collaborated in art projects with children, families, women, and teachers around the world for 50 years. She was a senior fellow at The Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University and an artist in residence at Amherst College, where she taught Collaborative Art: The Practice and Theory of Working with Communities.
Jim Goldberg’s innovative use of image and text make him a landmark photographer of our times. He received the Henri Cartier-Bresson Award and the Deutsche Börse Photography Prize in 2011. Goldberg’s works are in numerous museum collections in the United States and Europe. He is represented by Casemore Kirkeby Gallery in San Francisco and is a member of Magnum Photos.
