Mindseye

Installation Image

This installation shot features a portrait of the author of Viewfinders: Black Women Photographers, Jeanne Moutousammy-Ashe who granted the Teen Curators permission to use research materials, documents, audio to create this exhibition. She is heard later throughout this exhibition experience speaking about her motivates in creating this book. 

In the middle is The Light Box filled with a mosaic of snapshots from the Teen Curators cohort.  Inundated with access and opportunity to capture life at any moment with their phones and digital cameras, the Teen Curators attempted to slow down the process of creating imagery. Students were given ILFORD HP5 PLUS black and white disposable cameras and asked, "if you could capture your world raw, un-cropped and unedited what would we see?"

To the right hangs a corkboard showcasing snapshots of many of the women photographers featured throughout the exhibition with their cameras, a business card. advertisement as well as certificates of achievement from photography school. It centers a reproduction document of Jeanne Moutousammy’s Ashe motivations for creating Viewfinders.