About this Event
Sunday, November 16, 2025, 3-5PM.
25 Dederick Street, Kingston, NY.
Admission is FREE. Available on livestream as well at CPW YouTube channel, 3PM.
In conjunction with Kinship & Community: Selections from the Texas African American Photography Archive and Rahim Fortune: Between a Memory and Me, currently on view at CPW, photographer Rahim Fortune and scholar Nicole R. Fleetwood will meet to discuss issues raised by these exhibitions. Both exhibitions touch on the role of photography in small communities, shared and traditional cultural practices, the relationship between contemporary photography and the archive, and, more generally, the photograph as a repository of local memory. Having Rahim and Nicole together in one room on a Sunday afternoon will not disappoint!
Fortune's portrait and landscape work at CPW captures American identity in the Texan south, exploring the connections between families and communities, the histories embedded in the landscapes they inhabit, and the traditions folks carry forward. The connection with Nicole is that part of his project is new color photography that he created in response to the Texas African American Photography Archive (TAAP) as a commission from Aperture and Documentary Arts. Enter Fleetwood, who drew on that same archive to organize the wonderful images of Texan small towns in the Kinship exhibition. Similar to Rahim, the focus of Kinship is work by Black community photographers working in urban neighborhoods in Dallas and Houston and small towns in East Texas from 1942 to 1984, against the backdrop of segregation. Rahim essentially updated the TAAP archive, affirming the startling continuity of the community life recorded in it.
Images © Rahim Fortune
Event Venue & Nearby Stays
25 Dederick St, 25 Dederick Street, Kingston, United States
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