Kamoinge Workshop artist James M. Mannas Jr. screens his film “King is Dead” (1968), an account of the reactions of his New York community to the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. The screening is followed by a conversation with the filmmaker
RaMell Ross, moderated by Whitney assistant curator
Carrie Springer.
RaMell Ross is a visual artist, filmmaker, and writer based in Rhode Island and Alabama. His feature documentary
Hale County This
Morning, This Evening won a Special Jury Award for Creative Vision at the 2018 Sundance Film Festival and was nominated for an Oscar at the 91st Academy Awards.
Presented in collaboration with the Whitney Museum of American Art, this series of programs features conversations with artists from the Kamoinge Workshop included in the exhibition
The Big Review | Working Together: the Photographers of the Kamoinge Workshop
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Working Together
Saturday 21 November 2020 - Sunday 28 March 2021 - Event ended.
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.