1:30 pm EST: Digital reception for participants to socialize
2 pm EST: Presentation on Working Together: Photographers of the Kamoinge Workshop
The presentation begins at 2 pm EST.
FREE EVENT.

Join us for an online presentation on Working Together: The Photographers of the Kamoinge Workshop led by a Deaf educator and focused on how communities are experienced, witnessed, and engaged by those who live within them.

Summary: Working Together is an unprecedented exhibition that chronicles the formative years of the Kamoinge Workshop, a collective of Black photographers established in New York City in 1963. “Kamoinge” comes from the language of the Kikuyu people of Kenya, meaning “a group of people acting together,” and reflects the ideal that animated the collective. In the early years, at a time of dramatic social upheaval, members met regularly to show and discuss each other’s work and to share their critical perspectives, technical and professional experience, and friendship. Although each artist had his or her own sensibility and developed an independent career, the members of Kamoinge were deeply committed to photography's power and status as an independent art form. They boldly and inventively depicted their communities as they saw and participated in them, rather than as they were often portrayed.

A select number of spaces are held for student observers fluent in ASL. Please email AccessFeedback@whitney.org to inquire.

A Zoom link will be sent to guests in a confirmation email prior to February 6.