Join the collective Souls in Focus for a conversation and reception celebrating Creativity Lab: Make a Portrait. The collective and its members will discuss the history of Souls in Focus and their role in establishing and strengthening networks of photographers across New York City. A light reception in front of the Creativity Lab will follow.
Register for the in-person conversation or the Zoom option.
Souls in Focus is a New York City–based, community-driven visual artist collective and creative agency. Since their inception in 2018, they’ve built a strong community of thinkers, creators, educators, and community organizers. Their values—inspire, educate, connect—are deeply rooted in watering their communities through photography, creative collaboration, and sustaining meaningful networks across the city and beyond.
Henry Danner is a photographer and visual storyteller committed to using his camera as a tool to influence change. He uses the techniques of street photography, documentary photography, and photojournalism to highlight the poetic nature of everyday life, display the strengths of communities, and share stories that heal. His work focuses on various aspects of Black identity while highlighting themes related to social justice, criminal justice, youth development, education, and community development. Danner is a cofounder of the visual artist collective Souls in Focus.
Naeem Douglas is an Emmy-nominated journalist, writer, and photographer. He’s also a content producer at MoMA, where he writes and edits articles and takes photographs for MoMA Magazine.
Lauren von Eckartsberg is a photographer, community organizer, and educator whose work explores themes of identity, collective experience, and nostalgia. She is an alumna of the International Center of Photography and has served as the education and community engagement director of the photography collective and creative agency Souls in Focus.
Sade Fasanya is a Nigerian American photographer, educator, community builder, and cofounder of the visual artist collective Souls in Focus. Working across digital and analog mediums, her practice centers on identity, expression, African diasporic communities, and the visual language of everyday urban life. Fasanya’s works move fluidly across the photographic genres of portraiture, street photography, and social documentation.
Kedrick Walker is a photographer and multimedia designer living and working in Brooklyn. Over the past 10 years, he has been fascinated and informed by the intersection of design, photography, technology, and culture. Through intentional design and storytelling, Walker aims to broaden conversations around the experiences of Black/LGBTQIA+ communities.
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