Watch this moving conversation about the significance of Black photographers, the power of the camera’s gaze, and photography’s role in movements for human rights and social justice featuring Jamaica Gilmer, photographer and founder of "The Beautiful Project,” documentary photographer and visual storyteller Dare KumoluJohnson, and Jay Simple, a visual artist and the founder of Photographer’s Green Book. Independent curator and art historian Anita Bateman, Ph.D, moderated the conversation. This event took place on Zoom on October 14, 2020, and was cosponsored by the Forum for Scholars and Publics and The Focus Program at Duke University, in collaboration with Duke’s firstyear FOCUS course, “Human Rights on Camera,” taught by Professor Rebecca Stein.

Event info: fsp.duke.edu/events/practicesblackphotographers

Jamaica Gilmer: www.jamaicagilmer.com
Dare KumoluJohnson: www.kumolustudios.com
Jay Simple: www.jaysimple.com