Join us for a conversation with Terrence Jennings and Jamel Shabazz as part of our On Protest and Mourning virtual Dialogue Series. On Protest and Mourning, our current digital exhibition, is a gathering of photographers and filmmakers whose work reveals how as a community, a nation, and a diaspora we grapple with anger, loss, and grief in response to the ongoing state violence and police brutality perpetrated against Black bodies. Their poignant and timely work helps us to navigate the questions: While we engage in protest and uprising, how can we also mark the lives that have been irreparably damaged or lost? How do we create rituals and make spaces for mourning?

Photojournalist Terrence Jennings will expand on his photographs of New Yorkers taken during the spring and summer months of 2020 as they gathered in solidarity to disavow hatred, oppression, and violence. Through his aptly titled collection, I saw honor and dignity, too!, Jennings shares why, in protests against the devaluation of Black lives, he is committed to seeking out dual concepts of honor and dignity. Jennings will be in conversation with celebrated photographer Jamel Shabazz, known for his iconic portrayals of Black life throughout New York City and beyond. The conversation will be hosted by Grace Aneiza Ali, curator of On Protest and Mourning.