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Peers and Pathways: A Photographic Redux

Presented by Massachusetts College of Art and Design

October 18-November 24, 2010

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Peers and Pathways: 30 Years and Counting documents the work of seven extraordinary artists who were launched in Boston in the 1970s. Omobowale Ayorinde, Ekua Holmes, Reginald Jackson, Lou Jones, Eric Meza, Hakim Raquib, and Rudy Robinson (1941-1989) are talented friends and colleagues who are collectively critics and inspirations. Although each has shown individually, together they form a tour de force. The strength and sensitivity in their disparate work allows these photographers to mean a great deal to us—and to one another. As their professional paths have diverged and they have become successful in varied academic, commercial, and fine art spheres, they continue to be in touch and to shore up and spur on one another’s work. As acknowledged achievers and survivors they embody the potential for artists of color today.
Peers and Pathways also focuses on visualizing the careers of black photographers from the Boston area, many who began their careers in this city. This exhibition highlights the increasingly strong influence these photographers have had on the art scene in other U.S. cities, Africa, and the Caribbean. In the course of some thirty years these photographers and artists effectively enriched the visual representation of black communities worldwide. Although they have diverse visions, they are united by their ability to explore how black identity was formed through their lenses of documentary, landscape, and portrait photography.
These artists tell imaginative and ordinary stories that have the ability to reflect, empower, and seduce. Organizing this exhibition today we have re-collected and reconnected our memories from the last thirty years to our future as we visualize new pathways to explore the African diaspora.