Lorton Photography Project

YouTube video by PublicEnemyVEVO Public Enemy - Fight The Power (Official Music Video)

Music that speaks truth.
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🎃 On this day of reflection and tradition, we’re reminded that the real challenges our communities face aren’t seasonal—they’re systemic. Together, we can end the harms of mass incarceration and build a future grounded in justice.

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#Halloween #JLUSAstrong #JusticeForAll

In the U.S., we use prisoners as a source of income for the powerful, because our prison system originated with our chattel slavery system. This rate increase approval is the intentional result of that system, fought for by sheriffs and wardens and state legislators and huge corporations.

Chuck Kennedy will be giving an Artist talk at the Jackson Art Center on November 16 at 3pm.
Chuck co-taught photography at Lorton Prison during the early days of his career!
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"We've always used art and culture as a way to imagine something different."

Patrisse Cullors reminds us, collective, joyful expression is pivotal to combatting fear-based narratives that divide us all. Hear more insights from Patrisse on our full #CWA25 kickstarter video.

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In 2024, four million Americans were banned from voting due to a felony conviction. We're committed to expanding voting rights in every state & working with state partners to provide specific data on state felony disenfranchisement. bit.ly/3kGns8t

This is us — the Holsinger Studio Portrait Project. Check out the cool video. And come to our launch party tomorrow. 👇🏽

‘Visions of Progress’ catalog showcases African American portraits in central Virginia’s history Holsinger Studio Portrait Project is launching its ‘Visions of Progress: Portraits of Dignity, Style, and Racial Uplift’ catalog.

Catalog launch! Great photography! Free books! Tomorrow! Watch all about it! www.29news.com/2025/10/24/v...

Part of a thread on who's funding Trump's vandalism of the White House. Worth keeping in mind when it comes to spending your money. But, damn, shitty corporations are virtually impossible to avoid.

Can we get the jewel thieves to do a little work on the Files?

ICE is hiring dozens of health workers as lawsuits, deaths in custody mount Nearly as many migrants have died in detention so far this year than over the four years of the Biden administration.

More people have died this year in immigration detention than any other year in decades.

The best way to prevent abuse and deaths in ICE custody is for Congress to stop funding the ICE detention machine.

Gordon Parks’ Photography Continues to Inspire Activism and Human Connection Temples of Hope, Rituals of Survival is the first exhibit substantially devoted to Gordon Parks’ images of Black American spiritual life.

Howard University’s Temples of Hope, Rituals of Survival: Gordon Parks and Black Religious Life is the first exhibit devoted to Gordon Parks’ images of Black American religious and spiritual life.

Contributor Coley Gray talks with curator Dr. Melanee C. Harvey:

Anthony Barboza: The Visionary Documentary Photographer Who Redefined How We See the World Discover how Anthony Barboza, a trailblazing documentary photographer, transformed photography with his unique perspective and tools.

Thinking today about the legendary photographer Anthony Barboza and his striking work.
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What we do: resist, organize + vote #nokings #freedc

An essential read. Can we make this go viral?

I’ve been reposting all of the crowd videos of today’s NO KINGS rallies because at some point they’ll try to say it didn’t happen.

Love America ❌👑
#freedc

Harlem Street Scene

Harlem Street Scene https://www.brooklynmuseum.org/opencollection/objects/116613

“How Living Are His Portraits of the Dead.” Toni Morrison on the Photography of James Van Der Zee Below is Toni Morrison’s introduction to The Harlem Book of the Dead by James Van Der Zee, Owen Dodson, and Camille Billops It is fashionable these days to hear among photography lovers the c…

“How Living Are His Portraits of the Dead.” Toni Morrison on the Photography of James Van Der Zee
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I'm attending No Kings's event, “NO KINGS in Washington, D.C.” - sign up now to join me! www.mobilize.us/nokings/even...

Who gets to tell the story?
#massincarceration

Carnegie Museum honors 'Black photojournalism' legacy From Gordon Parks to Kwame Brathwaite, 'Black Photojournalism' celebrates the images—and imaginations—that defined Black life from 1945 to the 1980s.

'Black Photojournalism' Brings Joy Alive — in Black and White
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Anthony Barboza’s retrospective is powerful, moving and nostalgic - The New Bedford Light The exhibit at the New Bedford Art Museum looks at Black culture, history and society through the lens of a master photographer.

Anthony Barboza’s retrospective at the New Bedford Art Museum looks at Black culture, history and society through the lens of a master photographer
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What we do
#document+advocate

‘Visual medicine’: Jamel Shabazz’s evocative photos of Brooklyn’s Prospect Park The photographer’s new book collects his pictures of the mammoth New York City park from the 1980s up until now

Jamel Shabazz lovingly documents his sacred space and honors those who’ve stepped in front of his lens.
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Returning to ruins: Photos of Palestinian families going home WADI GAZA, Gaza Strip (AP) — Palestinian families who have been displaced by Israel's two-year war on Hamas have started returning to their destroyed homes in Gaza after the Israeli military announced...

ASSOCIATED PRESS: Returning to ruins: Photos of Palestinian families going home apnews.com/photo-galler... @apnews.com ‪#photojournalism #journalism #photography‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬

No Kings As the president escalates his authoritarian power grab, the NO KINGS non-violent movement continues to rise stronger. We are united once again to remind the world: America has No Kings and the power ...

No Kings. October 18th. Free speech is action. Please join in.
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Trump Fires Black Officials From an Overwhelmingly White Administration

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What we do:
document + advocate 📷

Grateful to have seen “Photography and the Black Arts Movement” before the National Gallery of Art closure due to government shutdown.