COMMUNITY: Lolita Parker Jr
Photographer Lolita Parker undertakes a journey through her family photo albums and makes several revealing discoveries that change her perspective on the past and on her immediate family.
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DDFR.TV Feature: Deborah Willis
“On one occasion I stumbled upon THE SWEETFLYPAPER OF LIFE and proudly brought it home…. I was excited to see the photographs: it was the first book I had ever seen with ‘colored’ people in it – people that I recognized, people that reminded me of my own family…. The photographs spoke to me in [...]
DDFR @ Atlanta
On Saturday February 21st, Thomas Allen Harris delivered the final program of the Integrated Media Association – Public Media Conference held at the West Peachtree Plaza in downtown Atlanta, Georgia. Following a screening of excerpts from the “Through A Lens Darkly: Black Photographers and the Emergence of a People” documentary and multimedia outreach project – [...]
INTRODUCING: Digital Diaspora Family Reunion
Digital Diaspora Family Reunion is a touring Roadshow that travels across the African Diaspora to uncover the hidden treasures in family photographic archive. Individuals are invited to explore the rich and revealing historical narratives found within their own family photograph albums and share their stories with the world.
COMMUNITY: Lolita Parker Jr
Photographer Lolita Parker undertakes a journey through her family photo albums and makes several revealing discoveries that change her perspective on the past and on her immediate family.
SNEAK PREVIEW: Through A Lens Darkly
Through A Lens Darkly: Black Photographers and the Emergence of a People is a two-hour film that will explore the role of photography, since its rudimentary beginnings in the 1840s, in shaping the identity, aspirations, and social emergence of African Americans from slavery to the present.
Profile: Thomas E. Askew
Thomas E. Askew (1848? – 1914) Atlanta’s first African American photographer. Began his photography career in the 1880s at Motes Studio downtown Atlanta. Later operated his own studio from home on Summit Avenue. Three years after his death, the Great Fire of 1917 destroyed all of his photographic equipment and negatives. “African American History Tour [...]
NOW SHOWING: Hank Willis Thomas
Employing visual language and materials commonly used in mass media, artist Hank Willis Thomas traces black history through visual culture in an attempt to dissect, reinterpret, and re-imagine iconic moments from the “black past” and to investigate the complexity of race in America in the 21st century.
DDFR WORLD
A journey through the world of DDFR and some of the families and friends we have encountered and embraced along the way.
