photographer – WEST HARLEM ART FUND

November 15, 2021Africa South Africa

Lunga Ntila FEMINIST ARTIST

My feminism looks like freedom; it is opinionated and unapologetic — Lung Ntali LUNGA NTALI emphasises intersectionality, sexuality and femininity as important foundations regarding her storytelling and work. At her core, she is a truthful artist who encourages difficult but necessary conversations that speak to marginalized people. She manages to tackle subjects that attempt to […]

February 9, 2021February 16, 2021Africa

INTRODUCING SOUTH AFRICAN PHOTOGRAPHER TONY GUM

Gum’s presentation, “Ode to She,” is a timely reflection on her own experience as a Xhosa woman. Her work is rooted in the tradition known as intonjane, where a young girl evolves physically and spiritually through the many stages of her native culture. In her young 20s, Gum is certainly a young artist on the […]

May 22, 2018Africa Gabon Montreal

YANNIS DAVY GUIBINGA — AN ARTIST TO WATCH

Born in 1995, Yannis Davy Guibinga is a self-taught photographer from Libreville, Gabon who currently lives and works in Montreal, Canada. Focusing mostly on portraits, Yannis’ work is mostly centered around studying Blackness at large and its intersections with other social factors such as cultures and gender for instance. Yannis’ work focuses almost […]

October 10, 2015March 28, 2016Brooklyn Harlem Inwood New York City Washington Heights West Harlem

THANK YOU NYC

Tonight, we close our interventions series Under the Viaduct for 2015. Emotions are high. Artists worked very hard for this final installment and we had to deal with change of dates and other considerations but we pushed through. I would like to thank everyone who made these interventions from June to October possible. Lady K […]