I attended an online study event, The Politics of Portraiture, given by Arpita Shah and one of the photographers whose work was featured, and which we discussed, was Dawoud Bey. The work we looked at was his series Harlem, USA. Born in 1953 and growing up in Queens, New York; Bey started taking photographs at the age of 16 having been inspired by seeing the work of James Van Der Zee (1886 – 1983). Van Der Zee documented Harlem over sixty years and his work was featured in the contentious 1969 exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum in New York, Harlem … Continue reading Dawoud Bey – Harlem, USA