Photo: Four Freedoms reinterpreted by alumni Emily Shur & Hank Willis Thomas for For Freedoms, 2018
Photography & Imaging Community Newsletter
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DPI SPOTLIGHT: Reflections in Black: A Reframing Book Launch
Thursday, Oct 16, 2025
Join the Department of Photography & Imaging as we celebrate the release of Reflections in Black: A Reframing, the 25th anniversary edition of Dr. Deborah Willis’ internationally acclaimed publication Reflections in Black: A History of Black Photographers 1840 to the Present.
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DPI SPOTLIGHT: THE FALL 2025 FACULTY EXHIBITION
Tuesday, Oct 14, 2025
The Department of Photography & Imaging, Tisch School of the Arts, invites you to view the works showcased in our Fall 2025 Faculty Exhibition. On view are images and books employing a variety of approaches to the medium, ranging from duratran, mirror, and glass to archival inkjet prints.
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Dr. Willis in Designing Motherhood Exhibition
Friday, Oct 10, 2025
The exhibition broadly explores the intersections of design, access, and experiences of (in)fertility, pregnancy, postpartum, and parenthood, and includes more than 250 manufactured products, speculative design projects, medical devices and tools, graphic materials, contemporary artworks, and video.
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DPI Chair Dr. Willis and DPI Alum Hank Willis Thomas featured in Family Album exhibition
Wednesday, Oct 8, 2025
Drawing on the power of photography, a medium closely tied to memory, to summon the textures of daily life and the presence of loved ones, "Family Album" is a meditation on how community is recalled, represented and reimagined.
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Black Portraiture[s] NYU Tulsa
Tuesday, Oct 7, 2025
In an effort to amplify Black arts, and culture, NYU-Tulsa on Friday hosted the 11th annual Black Portraitures international conference at OSU-Tulsa. Created by Deborah Willis, Black Portraitures is a global event for intellectual, artistic and historical conversations.
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DPI Professor Zalika Azim: Blood Memories (or a going to ground) Solo Exhibition
Tuesday, Oct 7, 2025
Blood Memories (or a going to ground) represents Azim’s first solo exhibition at a university arts center and is the culmination of two Visual Arts Center-sponsored artist residencies, The St. Elmo Arts Residency and the VAC Every Page Foundation Artist Residency.
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DPI Alum Sam Contis' first institutional solo show
Tuesday, Oct 7, 2025
This exhibition, Contis’s first institutional solo show in New York, offers an original perspective of running never before pictured on film. It is impossible to look away from the discomfort and intimacy of Contis’s vision.
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DPI Spotlight: Dr. Deborah Willis Featured by the Guardian
Wednesday, Sep 24, 2025
The artist and curator of photography discusses her relationship to the work of Black pioneers in photography and the influence of her 2000 book.
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DPI Spotlight: The Laundromat Project at 20: Echoes of the Seed Moderated by Dr. Deborah Willis
Tuesday, Sep 16, 2025
The Laundromat Project & The Schomburg Center present a conversation about the power of art to transform communities.
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DPI Presents Reflections in Black: A Reframing Book Launch
Monday, Sep 8, 2025
Join the Department of Photography and Imaging as we celebrate the release of Reflections in Black: A Reframing, the 25th anniversary edition of Dr. Deborah Willis’ internationally acclaimed publication Reflections in Black: A History of Black Photographers 1840 to the Present.
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