In light of the Black Lives Matter movement, now is a wonderful time to support black artists. Here are a few up and coming young, black photographers and filmmakers who are using their platform to inspire others.
#1) Geraldine Jeannot
● Background
○ “ The photos have a special meaning to me because they are a piece of history
that I’ll be able to pass down to future generations in my family. My family is from
Haiti and it’s been instilled in me to remember the history of my people. As a
Haitian American who is a photographer, I felt like it was my responsibility to
capture what was occurring in front of me. So often history is white washed and
watered down. We don’t get to see the rawness of it all. I needed to go down to
the protests for myself and be a part of history.”
● Inspiration
○ “My inspirations come from a plethora of black women. Women in my family,
activists like Shirley Chisholm, artists like Solange and Ava Duvernay.”
● Rules to Follow
○ “The only rule I follow is when I’m photographing at protests, I’ll make sure to blur
out protestors faces for their privacy and protection. ”
● Sites
#2) Tania Sims
● Inspiration
○ “I pay close attention to what’s around me and the people I plan on incorporating
in my film pieces.”
● Goals
○ “I’d love for people to see through lenses they normally wouldn’t. That’s the
beauty of film. Not only do I want you to feel something during, I want you to feel
something different afterwards.”
● Passion
○ “I've always been a film fanatic but it wasn’t until I was a junior in high school
when I really began to fall in love with the art of film. I was infatuated with the
history, the culture, and all the different styles. I knew I wanted to be apart of it.”
● Sites
#3) Alejandro Hendricks
● Inspiration
○ “This is my story I think for me I want to be more honest with myself and everyone and
the truth is that I’m fucked up over someone I thought I could never lose.”
● New Beginnings
○ “ I started doing films with my roommate Lance in 2016 and went into it with the
intention of making something cool or something that people would think highly of if I
did. Lately, making films has been a way to capture how I feel and to explore it. I
think more than anything my inspiration is my family, if I can do nothing else in the
world I want to show my sister how it’s okay to be vulnerable and to let your emotions
go because you heal that way, or at least begin to my goal with making films is to just
make something truthful to me.”
● Future Goals
○ “Lance will be directing my first feature film script in January of 2021, I want to direct
my own films in the future but I’m in no rush, I hope in 10 years I’ve done at least one
though.”
● Sites
Petitions You can Support:
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