Best Isaac Stuart Podcasts (2024)

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Venice Biennale Special: Aindrea Emelife interview 13:06

4d ago13:06

13:06

Welcome to the second of our episodes from the 60th International Art Exhibition - La Biennale di Venezia. I am delighted to welcome back Aindrea Emelife as my guest. Aindrea is a curator and art historian of modern and contemporary art, whose practise specializes in colonial and decolonial African histories and the politics of representation. Aind…

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Venice Biennale Special: Sir John Akomfrah interview 30:57

6d ago30:57

30:57

Welcome to the first of our episodes from the 60th International Art Exhibition - La Biennale di Venezia. Today, I am delighted to hand the mic to my dear friend the arts writer Dale Berning Sawa, who met with John Akomfrah at the preview of The British Council commission Listening All Night To The Rain. You'll also hear from me in this episode and…

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Legacy Russell: in conversation with Lou Mensah 36:31

9d ago36:31

36:31

Legacy Russell is Executive Director & Chief Curator of the experimental arts institution The Kitchen, one of New York's oldest non-profit spaces. She is writer, curator and author of the critically acclaimed Glitch Feminism: A Manifesto. I am delighted to have Legacy join me to talk about Black Meme, which is due to be published on May 7th. Black …

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Ibrahim Mahama: in conversation with Lou Mensah 16:39

19d ago16:39

16:39

Ibrahim Mahama is an installation artist who works with textiles, material production and found objects to create large-scale public interventions. He initially garnered widespread attention for his open-air installations made of stitched-together jute sacks that were draped on or over architectural structures, such as libraries, an airport, and a …

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Michael Ohajuru: in conversation with Lou Mensah 18:44

27d ago18:44

18:44

Michael Ohajuru is a London-based art historian who returns to the podcast to discuss the John Blanke project, a large gathering of artists and historians who have come together to re-imagine John Blanke, the black trumpeter to the courts of Henry 7th and Henry 8th and the first person of African descent in British history that we have both a visua…

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Joy Gregory: in conversation with Lou Mensah 21:34

1M ago21:34

21:34

Joy Gregory (b. 1959. Bicester, UK). Born in the UK to Jamaican parents, Joy Gregory’s work explores the impact of colonialism on global perceptions of beauty, memory, botany, health and traditional knowledge. As a photographer, Gregory has worked over decades in various media, including video, digital and analogue photography, film installation, V…

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Tiona Nekkia McClodden: in conversation with Lou Mensah 31:06

1M ago31:06

31:06

This evening, 21 March '24 6 - 8pm GMT: Artist Talk - Tiona Nekkia McClodden at White Cube Bermondsey, London. Tiona will discuss the impetus of her solo exhibition ‘A MERCY | DUMMY’, which spans two discrete bodies of works produced alongside each other. McClodden will explore the impulse to present two bodies of works together for the first time …

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Cynthia Lawrence John 13:18

4M ago13:18

13:18

Welcome to the final episode in my seven part, end of year series! Inspired by the Black radical tradition of the harmony between the lyrical and visual, I am joined by friends to explore the musical influences that inspire their work. We also look to the people, real and imagined, familial and ancestral who guide them. Cynthia is a costume designe…

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Rashod Taylor 21:21

4M ago21:21

21:21

Welcome to the penultimate episode in this Christmas series of conversations. Inspired by the Black radical tradition of the harmony between the lyrical and visual, I am joined by friends artists to explore the musical influences that inspire their work. We also look to the people, real and imagined, familial and ancestral who guide them. Rashod Ta…

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Tyrone Isaac Stuart 26:56

4M ago26:56

26:56

Welcome to this seven part, end of year series - new episodes are released each weekday between Dec 13-21. Inspired by the Black radical tradition of the harmony between the lyrical and visual. I am joined by friends (artists, dancers, musicians) to explore the musical influences that inspire their work. We also look to the people, real and imagine…

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Jose Campos AKA Studio Lenca 23:40

4M ago23:40

23:40

Welcome to this seven part, end of year series! New episodes released each weekday between Dec 13-21. Inspired by the Black radical tradition of the harmony between the lyrical and visual. I am joined by friends (artists, dancers, musicians) to explore the musical influences that inspire their work. We also look to the people, real and imagined, fa…

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Helene Love-Allotey 33:25

5M ago33:25

33:25

Welcome to my seven part end of year series! New episodes will be released each weekday between Dec 13-21. Inspired by the Black radical tradition of the harmony between the lyrical and visual, I am joined by friends (artists, dancers, musicians and in today's episode an art specialist) to explore the musical influences that inspire their work. We …

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Axel Kacoutié 21:18

5M ago21:18

21:18

Welcome to my seven part end of year series! New episodes will be released each weekday between Dec 13-21. Inspired by the Black radical tradition of the harmony between the lyrical and visual, I am joined by friends (artists, dancers, musicians) to explore the musical influences that inspire their work. We also look to the people, real and imagine…

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Brian Jackson 23:47

5M ago23:47

23:47

WELCOME TO SERIES NINE! This is my end of year series! New episodes will be released each weekday, between Dec 13-21. Inspired by the Black radical tradition of the harmony between the lyrical and visual. I am joined by friends (artists, dancers, photographers, musicians) to explore the musical influences that inspire their work. We also look to th…

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Wandering: An immersive gallery walk with Harold Offeh 20:32

5M ago20:32

20:32

Welcome to Wandering. A four part series of immersive podcast gallery walks, brought to you by Shade Podcast and Axel Kacoutié. Today we meet the artist Harold Offeh at the Dulwich Picture Gallery in London as he prepares to present work in their forthcoming exhibition, Soulscapes. Opening on Feb 14th 2024, Soulscapes is a major exhibition of lands…

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Wandering: An immersive gallery walk with Kayo Chingonyi 19:29

7M ago19:29

19:29

Welcome to Wandering. A four part series of immersive podcast gallery walks, brought to you by Shade Podcast and Axel Kacoutié. Today we meet writer, editor and broadcaster, Kayo Chingonyi at the Graves Gallery in Sheffield, as he meditates on process and practice and what Patrick Caulfield's, The Hermit reveals to him. Artworks Discussed in this l…

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Wandering: immersive gallery walks, with contemporary creatives 11:50

7M ago11:50

11:50

Today we meet musician, producer, broadcaster and DJ Nabihah Iqbal at Sir John Soane's Museum in London as she explores the many trinkets and secrets, hidden in the open. Wandering is brought to you by Shade Podcast and Axel Kacoutié. Discover more episodes in this series as we meet Zakia Sewell, Kayo Chingonyi and Harold Offeh as they discover art…

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Wandering: a new four part podcast series of immersive gallery walks, with contemporary creatives 15:00

8M ago15:00

15:00

Broadcaster, DJ and writer Zakia Sewell walks with us in the National Portrait Gallery in London. Zakia reflects on how memory and legacy influence our way of seeing, and how our contemporary eyes judge the face of history. We ask, to what extent is a portrait a mirror? We view a photographic portrait of Sarah Forbes Bonetta (1843-80) Room 23, Floo…

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Eddie Hutton-Mills. Director BBC Kanaval: A Peoples History of Haiti in Six Chapters 28:58

11M ago28:58

28:58

Today my guest is the Director Eddie Hutton-Mills. Eddie co-directed Kanaval: A Peoples History of Haiti in Six Chapters with Leah Gordon. Eddie Hutton-Mills is an award winning documentary filmmaker, who has made films for all the major UK & US broadcasters including the BBC, ITV and Channel 4. He’s also made biographical feature films about Naomi…

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Interludes: Black Balloons at Tate Modern. A Shade Podcast x Axel Kacoutié sound installation 16:11

11M ago16:11

16:11

Interludes: Black Balloons is a new sound installation by Shade Podcast and Axel Kacoutié now showing at Tate Gallery. Responding to Liz Johnson Artur’s display Time don’t run here, the piece references Artur’s Black Lives Matter protest images and works from her ongoing Black Balloon Archive documenting people in Africa, and of the African and Car…

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Jermaine Francis on film : Lost In Music A Post Industrial Dreamscape 41:18

11M ago41:18

41:18

An exploration of race and politics via the dancefloor. Today my guest is the photographer and filmmaker Jermaine Francis. Jermaine and I discuss his recent film Lost in Music: A Post Industrial Dreamscape - an exploration of race and politics within a dancefloor context. This work was recently presented alongside a discussion with the writer Natha…

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Caribbean film with Patrice Robinson 14:26

12M ago14:26

14:26

Snapshots: Caribbean Cinema Up Close at The Barbican. Today my guest is Patrice Robinson who talks about Snapshots: Caribbean Cinema Up Close, at The Barbican, her debut curatorial season. With interest in communities, community access to film and the intimacies of the human experience, Patrice is a film programmer and writer working in the interse…

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Shade Shorts on Film with June Givanni 37:34

12M ago37:34

37:34

PerAnkh – The June Givanni PanAfrican Cinema Archive, now showing at Raven Row London. Today my guest is the film curator and archivist, June Givanni. June's new exhibition, PerAnkh: The June Givanni PanAfrican Cinema Archive, is showing at Raven Row in London until 4 June 2023. The June Givanni PanAfrican Cinema Archive (JGPACA) holds a unique col…

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Hear, Now. A Podcast from Whitechapel Gallery: Tracing Absence exhibition 43:31

1y ago43:31

43:31

Featuring Lou Mensah & Sunil Shah. Enjoy this bonus episode of my conversation with the curators of Tracing Absence, a Whitechapel Gallery exhibition opening at the Kistefos Museum in Norway on April 29th, 2023. The MA student curators of Tracing Absence re-imagine the show to respond to the local context. Episode 18 of Whitechapel Gallery’s Hear, …

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Shade Shorts: on curation with Jareh Das 35:34

1y ago35:34

35:34

Writer, researcher and independent curator: Body Vessel Clay: Black Women, Ceramics and Contemporary Art. Dr Jareh Das is an independent curator, researcher and writer who lives and works between West Africa and the UK. Das’ academic and curatorial practice is informed by an interest in global modern and contemporary art with a specific focus on pe…

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Shade Shorts: on Curation with Aindrea Emelife 24:12

1y ago24:12

24:12

Curator and art historian specialising in modern and contemporary art and curator of Black Venus at Somerset House. *Please note that the sound quality in this episode is compromised due to an unstable internet connection between London and Lagos, where this conversation was recorded. However, Aindrea's insights are not to be missed! Aindrea Emelif…

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Shade Shorts: On curation with Bolanle Tajudeen 15:45

1y ago15:45

15:45

Bolanle Tajudeen founded Black Blossoms in 2015 to showcase the work of contemporary artists of colour. In 2020, Bolanle launched the Black Blossoms School of Art and Culture, an initiative highlighting the art histories and creative practices of artists from historically marginalised backgrounds. As an alternative art school, Black Blossoms offers…

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Shade Shorts on curation with Péjú Oshin 18:54

1y ago18:54

18:54

Associate Director Gagosian Gallery. Péjú Oshin is the Associate Director of Gagosian Gallery and curator of Rites of Passage the exhibition featuring work by nineteen contemporary artists who share a history of migration. Rites of Passage explores the idea of “liminal space,” a coinage of anthropologist Arnold van Gennep (1873–1957). It is structu…

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Interludes: Portals 12:21

1+ y ago12:21

12:21

Portals features the voice of Cassi Namoda who shares her reflections based on her practice and work titled 'Worship at Bar Mundo' (2022). View 'Worship at Bar Mundo' here whilst listening to Axel's sonic response throughout this episode. Cassi Namoda is a painter whose work interweaves the personal with the historical. Born in Maputo and having li…

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Interludes: Mandala 7:16

1+ y ago7:16

7:16

Mandala features the sounds of the artist Nnena Kalu creating an untitled work and the voice of ActionSpace Associate Artist, Charlotte Hollinshead. Nnena Kalu has created a vast body of sculptural and 2D artworks and developed a live, performative element to her practice. She is driven by an instinctive urge to build repeated marks and forms, crea…

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Interludes: Where the sun sleeps 12:27

1+ y ago12:27

12:27

Where the sun sleeps features the voice of photographer Ming Smith who shares her reflections based on her practice and work Circle of Life (Hakone, Japan 1985). Ming Smith was the first female member to join Kamoinge, a collective of black photographers in New York in the 1960s, working to document black life. Smith would go on to be the first bla…

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Interludes: Dream Recurred 10:26

1+ y ago10:26

10:26

Dream Recurred features the voice of Amy Sherald who shares her reflections based on her practice and new work For love, and for country (2022). 'For love, and for country' features in 'The World We Make', Sherald's first solo show in Europe. In this new body of work, Sherald humanises the Black experience by depicting her subjects in both historic…

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Interludes: Forgetting Eden 10:04

1+ y ago10:04

10:04

Forgetting Eden features the voice of Rahima Gambo who shares her reflections based on her practice and project Education is Forbidden and Tatsuniya. Rahima’s deeply layered mixed media engagement is about the aftermath of conflict, the nature of memory and the echoes and consequences of colonial education in north eastern Nigeria. Discover more of…

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Larry Achiampong 38:15

1+ y ago38:15

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Larry Achiampong is a British Ghanian, Jarman Award nominated artist. In 2020 he was awarded the Stanley Picker fellowship and in 2019 he received the Paul Hamlyn Artist award in recognition for his practice. Larry’s most recent solo exhibition Wayfinder showed this summer at the Turner Contemporary Gallery. He serves on the Board of Trustees at In…

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Interludes: Drexciya 12:59

1+ y ago12:59

12:59

Drexciya features the voice of Phoebe Boswell who shares her reflections based on her practice and project The Black Horizon Do We Muse on the Sky or Remember the Sea? Discover more of Phoebe’s work on her Instagram and her website This episode also features a performance by Jazz Tenor Saxophonist JD Allen who collaborated with Phoebe Boswell on Th…

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Interludes 2:22

1+ y ago2:22

2:22

Interludes is a collaboration between Shade Podcast and Axel Kacoutié featuring six contemporary artists: Amy Sherald, Ming Smith, Phoebe Boswell, Rahima Gambo, Nnena Kalu and Cassi Namoda. Framed by the question "What does healing sound like?", these podcasts offer a visceral connection with the artists' work. In each episode we weave the artists'…

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Ekow Eshun, Writer and Curator of In the Black Fantastic at Hayward Gallery, London. 22:32

2y ago22:32

22:32

In this episode I am in conversation with Ekow Eshun. Ekow is a writer and the curator of In the Black Fantastic, currently on show at the Hayward Gallery, London. In the Black Fantastic is a new exhibition of 11 contemporary artists from the African diaspora, who draw on science fiction and myth to question our knowledge of the world. Although the…

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SHADE SHORTS with Co-Editors In Chief of Citizen Magazine, Henrietta Gallina & Danielle Powell-Cobb 18:37

2y ago18:37

18:37

AWARD WINNER 'BEST ARTS & CULTURE' PODCAST - BRITISH PODCAST AWARDS 2021 In this episode I’m in conversation with Co-Editors in chief of Citizen, Henrietta Gallina & Danielle Powell-Cobb. In 2017, the idea for Citizen magazine was born out of the desire to see something that did not quite exist, an independent magazine documenting Black life and cu…

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SHADE SHORTS with Johny Pitts, author of Afropean 26:09

2y ago26:09

26:09

AWARD WINNER 'BEST ARTS & CULTURE' PODCAST - BRITISH PODCAST AWARDS 2021 Shade Podcast is back with ‘Shade Shorts’ the new series of conversations with the founders of some our most radical, Black led art & culture journals. These episodes will keep us connected and inspired between the main seasons of the podcast. We will explore the power that we…

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SHADE SHORTS - The Photographer's Green Book 16:25

2y ago16:25

16:25

AWARD WINNER 'BEST ARTS & CULTURE' PODCAST - BRITISH PODCAST AWARDS 2021 Shade Podcast is back with ‘Shade Shorts’ the new series of conversations with the founders of some our most radical, Black led art & culture journals. These episodes will keep us connected and inspired between the main seasons of the podcast. We will explore the power that we…

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Making Sense of Inclusive Education with Dr. Aminul Hoque, at the South London Gallery 37:28

2+ y ago37:28

37:28

SHADE 'BEST ARTS & CULTURE' PODCAST - BRITISH PODCAST AWARDS 2021 Special edition from Shade at South London Gallery ‘Making Sense’ - a new digital resource that assembles people around ideas for structural change through creative practice. In this episode Lou Mensah speaks to Dr. Aminul Hoque about inclusive education and how our local community c…

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Thomas J Price 'Unencumbered Voices in Curated Spaces' : Hauser & Wirth x Shade 32:08

3y ago32:08

32:08

SILVER AWARD WINNER 'BEST ARTS & CULTURE' PODCAST - BRITISH PODCAST AWARDS 2021 Welcome to our third and final episode in this special series of conversations from Shade, supported by Hauser & Wirth, where we will be exploring ‘Unencumbered Voices in Curated Spaces: Inspired by the life & work of Sir Frank Bowling’. Released throughout this summer,…

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Unencumbered Voices in Curated Spaces : Hauser & Wirth x Shade with Guest Michael Ohajuru 21:13

3y ago21:13

21:13

SILVER AWARD WINNER 'BEST ARTS & CULTURE' PODCAST - BRITISH PODCAST AWARDS 2021 Unencumbered Voices in Curated Spaces: Inspired by the life & work of Sir Frank Bowling - a three-part summer podcast series, investigating freedom of expression today and throughout art history. This second episode in a special series of conversations from Shade, suppo…

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Unencumbered Voices in Curated Spaces : Hauser & Wirth x Shade with Guest Silas Munro 30:54

3y ago30:54

30:54

SILVER AWARD WINNER 'BEST ARTS & CULTURE' PODCAST - BRITISH PODCAST AWARDS 2021 Unencumbered Voices in Curated Spaces: Inspired by the life & work of Sir Frank Bowling - a three-part summer podcast series, investigating freedom of expression today and throughout art history. This first episode in a special series of conversations from Shade, suppor…

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Axel Kacoutié. Multi-award-winning audio artist, poet and sound designer 20:43

3y ago20:43

20:43

SILVER AWARD WINNER 'BEST ARTS & CULTURE' PODCAST - BRITISH PODCAST AWARDS 2021 Welcome to the final episode of the four-part series of conversations exploring anti-racism and the arts, co-curated by Shade and Convergence at the South London Gallery In this episode Lou Mensah is in conversation with Axel Kacoutié. Axel is is a multi-award-winning a…

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Author Season Butler in conversation with Shade at the South London Gallery 18:19

3y ago18:19

18:19

SILVER AWARD WINNER 'BEST ARTS & CULTURE' PODCAST - BRITISH PODCAST AWARDS 2021 Welcome to the third episode of the new four-part series of in-conversations exploring anti-racism and the arts, co-curated by Shade and Convergence at the South London Gallery Season Butler is a writer, performance artist and teacher. Season's debut novel 'Cynet' was p…

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Season 4 Finale - Art futures & BLM - In conversation with The White Pube 30:07

3y ago30:07

30:07

Art futures & BLM in conversation with The White Pube The White Pube is the collaborative identity of art critics Gabrielle de la Puente and Zarina Muhammad. They return as guests to talk about the positive changes they saw and those they hope for in the Arts, as a result of the BLM uprisings. @tate_united @riotgames @mark.leckey @swarzymacaly @the…

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BLM Raised fist salute, origins & manifestations - Guest, Barack Obama's Presidential Campaign Artist, Nicola Green 42:57

3y ago42:57

42:57

In this episode I take you through the origins and manifestations of the raised fist salute, which has more recently been associated with the BLM movement. We move on to my conversation with Nicola Green, the artist behind the work ‘In Seven Days’ - a series created from her unprecedented artistic access to Barack Obama’s 2008 Presidential campaign…

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Small Axe Screenwriter Courttia Newland in conversation with Shade at the South London Gallery Convergence Community Film Festival 26:37

3y ago26:37

26:37

Welcome to the second episode of the new four-part series of in-conversations exploring anti-racism and the arts, co-curated by Shade and Convergence. This episode is part of the South London Gallery's Convergence Community Film Festival on Saturday 20th February 2021. Our guest today is Courttia Newland. Courttia wrote the screenplays for Steve Mc…

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LEGACY with guest photographer Andre D. Wagner 26:31

3y ago26:31

26:31

With Guest Photographer Andre D Wagner Gordon Parks’ work was shared widely during the 2020 BLM protests, perhaps to share comfort, solace and act as a collective creative marker acknowledging that our civil justice work continues. My guest Andre shares the impact of Parks’ work on his own photography, his experiences of the protests, plus his work…

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