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Briana Ellis-Gibbs

Briana Ellis-Gibbs is a writer and photo editor from Queens, NY, with a BA in English Literature from Howard University and an MA in journalism from Craig Newmark Graduate School of Journalism at CUNY. She is interested in the intersection of photography, art, and history.

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Portrait Photography Through the Lens of Fredrick Douglass

by Briana Ellis-Gibbs September 21, 2023September 21, 2023

I Am Seen…Therefore, I Am at the Wadsworth Atheneum counters the racist images of Black Americans that were presented in mainstream media in the 19th century.

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Using a Nigerian Secret Writing System to Expose Social Injustices

by Briana Ellis-Gibbs August 29, 2023August 29, 2023

Artist Viktor Ekpuk discovered that the symbols of the Nsibidi script could function as a form of abstraction — a way to reduce ideas to their essence.

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The Renewed Urgency of Ernest Withers’s Photographs

by Briana Ellis-Gibbs July 6, 2023July 6, 2023

In Opa-locka, Florida, an exhibition of Withers’s civil rights images demonstrates that the Black history the state is trying to erase is indisputable and factual.

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Empathy Is at the Heart of Sleeping Beauties

by Briana Ellis-Gibbs June 29, 2023July 3, 2023

Sleeping Beauties at New York Life Gallery immerses viewers in a collection of paintings that bring mostly overlooked artists back to life.

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Photographer Frank Stewart Gets His First Museum Retrospective

by Briana Ellis-Gibbs June 9, 2023June 12, 2023

Ahead of the exhibition, Hyperallergic spoke to the artist about his images of jazz musicians and everyday Black individuals in moments of closeness and stillness.

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Feeling at Home at New York’s Contemporary African Art Fair

by Briana Ellis-Gibbs May 19, 2023May 20, 2023

The ninth edition of the 1-54 fair in Harlem made me proud of my Blackness, a feeling most art spaces don’t often inspire.

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The Black Comic Book Festival Is an Act of Resistance

by Briana Ellis-Gibbs April 17, 2023April 17, 2023

At the annual Schomburg Center event, I didn’t have to go searching for books made by and for me — because they were all around me.

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The Never-Before-Seen Photographs of Barkley L. Hendricks

by Briana Ellis-Gibbs April 9, 2023April 7, 2023

Most people know the artist for his paintings gracefully embodying the Black experience in America. In an upcoming exhibition, his photographs take center stage.

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Artists Show What They Can Do With a Google Phone’s Camera

by Briana Ellis-Gibbs March 21, 2023March 22, 2023

Works by 21 photographers are now on view in Manhattan for the seventh season and 100th project coming out of the Google Pixel Creator Labs.

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Dread Scott’s Visual Ballad to Nina Simone

by Briana Ellis-Gibbs March 8, 2023March 9, 2023

The artist talks to Hyperallergic ahead of his New York exhibition Goddam. 

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Documenting the Black History Not Taught in Classrooms

by Briana Ellis-Gibbs February 26, 2023February 27, 2023

The photographs in Renata Cherlise’s Black Archives capture Black people experiencing moments of love, joy, rest, leisure, and everyday life.

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Michelle Agins on Perseverance and Photographing Martin Luther King

by Briana Ellis-Gibbs September 18, 2022September 21, 2022

The second Black woman ever hired as a New York Times staff photographer, Agins built her career at a time when photo editors gave very few assignments to women — much less to women of color.

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Iranian Artist Minoo Emami’s Retrospective Opens at the Hartford Art School Galleries
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Iranian Artist Minoo Emami’s Retrospective Opens at the Hartford Art School Galleries

Featuring two decades of interdisciplinary art along with new work created in response to the ongoing Women’s Rights Movement in Iran, the exhibition is on view in Hartford, Connecticut.

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