Weekly Roundup: Carrie Mae Weems Interview, Female Photographers from Hong Kong and More

Weekly Roundup: Carrie Mae Weems Interview, Female Photographers from Hong Kong and More


Here’s a list of photography news/links that caught my eye this week:

Photo by Hannah Price from her series

Photo by Hannah Price from her series “City of Brotherly Love”

The Strange Fire Collective website featured a group of five photographers of color curated by Zora J Murff with an essay by photographer Aaron Turner. The photographers included are Hannah Price, Edward Cushenberry, Sonseree Gibson, Emma Uwejoma and Wendel White.

© CARRIE MAE WEEMS. COURTESY OF THE ARTIST AND JACK SHAINMAN GALLERY, NEW YORK

© CARRIE MAE WEEMS. COURTESY OF THE ARTIST AND JACK SHAINMAN GALLERY, NEW YORK

Curator and social media maven Kimberly Drew’s interview with Carrie Mae Weems for Lenny Letter is a quick read but touches on many important points like self representation, family structures and patriarchy, all revolving around their discussion about the artist’s seminal Kitchen Table Series.

Gordon Parks, Airline Terminal, Atlanta, Georgia, 1956

Gordon Parks, Airline Terminal, Atlanta, Georgia, 1956

The Year of the Great Gordon Parks lists several shows featuring Parks’ Civil Rights images on view this fall in art spaces across the United States.

Sisters | (Yodith Dammlash)

Sisters | (Yodith Dammlash)

Reimagining a Family’s History Through Its Old Snapshots, a post on The Week’s “Captured” photo blog features Yodith Damlash’s ongoing series The Names We Bear that layers archival images from her family’s life in Ethiopia.

YVONNE LO YUEN MAN, IN THE MIDST OF ISLAND & TREE GUARDIANS, 2015 © COURTESY THE ARTIST

YVONNE LO YUEN MAN, IN THE MIDST OF ISLAND & TREE GUARDIANS, 2015 © COURTESY THE ARTIST

Ahead of the upcoming Singapore International Photography Festival comes A Room With A View, a group show of six female photographers from Hong Kong featuring Yvonne Lo Yuen Man, Wong Wo-Bik, Lau Wai, Law Yuk-Mui, Lam Wai Kit and Joe Yiu Miu Lai.

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