Unfortunately, this program on Tuesday, December 13, has been canceled. We look forward to welcoming Jeanne Moutoussamy-Ashe to NOMA in the future. 

Join us for a lecture and conversation with photographer, activist, educator, and historian Jeanne Moutoussamy-Ashe. Presented as part of the programming schedule for Called to the Camera: Black American Studio Photographers, Moutoussamy-Ashe will speak about her career as an image-maker, including what motivates her own practice as a photographer. Deeply invested in issues of representation and photography’s potential to create social change, Moutoussamy-Ashe will also consider the relationship between photographs and the fight for civil rights, including important historical work by Black female photographers.

CANCELED

About the Artist 

Jeanne Moutoussamy-Ashe holds a BFA in photography from the Cooper Union for the Advancement for Art and Science in New York City. Her work has appeared in Life, Ebony, Sports Illustrated, Essence, the New York Times, and numerous other publications. She has had more than two dozen solo exhibitions, and her photography is held in public collections throughout the country, including the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, the Museum of Modern Art, and the New Orleans Museum of Art. Her 1986 historical volume Viewfinders: Black Women Photographers was the first of its kind and remains a foundational text in the field. In 2007, the University of South Carolina published the 25th anniversary edition of Daufuskie Island: Photographs by Jeanne Moutoussamy-Ashe, for which the photographer received an Essence Literary Award in Photography the following year. She serves as a director for the Arthur Ashe Endowment to Defeat AIDS and the President’s Council of the Cooper Union. 

From the Artist’s Website

“Over the past five decades, Jeanne Moutoussamy-Ashe has used her lens in service of storytelling, harnessing the power of images to convey meaning and truth. And while her photographs tell definitive stories—those of the condition and moments when they were taken- they are also intimate revelation reinforcing our underlying humanity, where our own personal truths can be found, refracted through personal experience.”