This week’s favorites focus on historic and contemporary photographic bodies of work. As you read about the collections and documentary series below, consider the importance of archives and how the information we preserve today will influence what people learn tomorrow.
Check out the #ICPConcerned: Global Images for Global Crisis exhibition which features an image and accompanying voice memo by photographer Kurt Boone. Scroll down to image #48 to hear Boone describe how he got this shot during this summer’s BLM protests in New York City.
Kurt Boone, @kurtboonephotography. A man wears American Flag scarf over his face and full body sign around his neck at a BLM protest rally in Union Square in NYC. June 2, 2020, New York.
Take a look at the series, “Behind the Mask,” by North Carolina photographer, Cornell Watson, which reflects on the black experience in America through a collection of images that pays homage to his ancestors.
Image Credit: © Cornell Watson
Dive into the never before seen archive of South African photographer, Ernest Cole, consisting of 60,000 negatives, letters, and sound recordings that trace his life and artistic career in exile from 1966 to 1990.
Image Credit: © Ernest Cole
Explore the photography collection of acclaimed theater director, Ebrahim Alkazi, whose acquisitions and drive to preserve Indian history transformed his archive into one of the largest holdings of 19th and early 20th century photographic prints from South and Southeast Asia.
Image Credit: Unknown. A Bengali Couple (c. 1880-1920)