Photos © Granville Carroll (left) and Ohemaa Dixon (right)

Humble Arts Foundation presents a conversation between Granville Carroll and Ohemaa Dixon, our first video interview. Carroll and Dixon’s rich discussion begins with Afrofuturism as a shared personal touchpoint and reveals much about how it influences and connects their creative practices.

I first saw Granville's work as I curated the juried exhibition Who Are You? for the Colorado Photographic Arts Center. Drawn from the Black Serenity series, Granville Carroll’s enigmatic self-portrait interrogates representations of Black bodies. As Dixon describes it, her recent project 3436 "addresses the graphic and visual trauma of lynching photograph," concentrating and recontextualizing generational trauma as a place of growth and redefinition. Dixon's work will be on view virtually through Candela Gallery in the exhibition Unbound, which opens on July 3rd. Also, be sure to check out Carroll’s work in the Lenscratch: Storytellers June 2020 installment.

As so much arts programming takes place online in this pandemic time, video conversations are a new format for us, and we hope to do more. We’ve included a volley of Dixon and Carroll’s work below to help contextualize the conversation.

Please let us know what you think by dropping a note to hello@hafny.org.

Roula Seikaly in conversation with Granville Carroll and Ohemaa Dixon

Courtesy of Odes Roberts/ Almost Studios - an amazing NYC/ Bkln-based resource for free downloadable protest posters and other actionable resources. Seriously, check them out.

Beyond the symbolic black square for #BlackoutTuesday, individuals, organizations, and brands are stepping up to take direct action around police brutality and centuries of systemic racism in the United States.

Many photographers are donating prints and organizing their own print sales to benefit a range of causes, from Black community empowerment to police and prison reform. Some photographers are collecting proceeds and then donating. Others are making it more interesting – and likely encouraging longer-term activism by requiring patrons to share a screenshot of their donation in exchange for a print. Some photo collectives are doing the work as well.

With this list, Humble sets a goal of capturing a breadth of compelling art for worthy and powerful causes.
Follow the links below for more info. Interested in having your print sale included here or know someone who is? DM us on Instagram @humbleartsfoundation with the details. (We’re also still adding to our Covid Print Benefit list in case you thought we forgot!)

Looking for more options to learn or just straight-up donate? Check this out from Authority Collective!

Two Photographers Connect on Afrofuturism: A Conversation with Ohemaa Dixon and Granville Carroll

A Growing List of Photography Print Sales For Anti-Racist Action and Social Change