Photography and Racial Justice: Honoring the work of Maurice Berger
Tuesday, April 13, 2021
6:30 PM 8:30 PM
The School of Visual Arts, MFA Photography, Video and Related Media Department welcomes you to a panel discussion in honor of celebrated historian, curator, and critic Maurice Berger. Featuring Deborah Willis, Brian Palmer, and Nona Faustine, this panel will examine issues that were central to Berger’s concerns and scholarship, namely the relationships between photography and racial justice.
From his scholarship on the Civil Rights Movement to his writings on the work of Gordon Parks, Berger’s work makes clear the central role of photography in the advancement of racial justice. Covering the fields of history, activism, photojournalism, and art, the panelists will explore how photography helps us reckon with issues of race and representation in the United States.
Dr. Deborah Willis (artist, author, and curator),
Brian Palmer (MFA Photo/Video alum ‘90; photographer and journalist)
Nona Faustine (photographer and visual artist, BFA Photo '94).
Please join us on Tuesday, April 13th at 6:30pm EST.
Free, virtual, and open to the public.
Link to Zoom: https://sva.zoom.us/j/85634896343
Nona Faustine is a native New Yorker and award winning photographer. In 2019 she was distinguished with the New York Foundation Arts award in Photography, BRIC Colene Brown Art Prize, Anonymous Was A Woman Award, and Finalist in the Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery Outwin Boochever Competition. Her work focuses on history, identity, representation, evoking a critical and emotional understanding of the past and proposes a deeper examination of contemporary racial and gender stereotypes. Faustine's work has been exhibited at Harvard University, Rutgers University, Maryland State University, Studio Museum of Harlem, Brooklyn Museum, the International Center of Photography, Saint Johns Divine Cathedral, Tomie Ohtake Institute in Brazil among others. Her work is in the collection of the David C. Driskell Center at Maryland State University, Studio Museum of Harlem, Brooklyn Museum and the Carnegie Museum, In 2020 her work was acquired by the North Dakota Museum and the Frederick R. Weisman Art Museum in Minnesota, Brandesis University the Johnson Museum, Minnesota Institute of Art, and the Baltimore Museum of Art. Faustine’s My Country series will be on view at the Andy Warhol Museum in Pittsburg, Fantasy America March, 2021.