CBSCM Presents: Documenting Nightlife: A Conversation with Chicago Photographers Group Panel
Channel: Honey Pot
Date: 2023-02-07

The documentation of the Black social experience is nothing without a documenter, and this panel celebrates just that: those Black photographers that document nightlife in Chicago and Black life writ large. An intergenerational group of photographers invested in the house scene discuss their variant photography backgrounds, mediums, and subject focuses, the practice of documenting Black social scenes, how they documented within the pandemic, and more, alongside sharing excerpts of their work and insight on their inspiring artistic processes.

A panel about Documenting Nightlife
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Panelist:
Seed Lynn
Kymon Kyndred
Shay Turner

Moderator:
Mario Smith

Kyndred, Kymon, Seed Lynn, and Shay Turner. “Documenting Nightlife: A Conversation with Chicago Photographers.” January 7, 2023. Panel presented by the Chicago Black Social Culture Map as part of the Love Dancing Exhibition at Heaven Gallery. Mario Smith, moderator.

This panel was produced by Honey Pot Performance and the Chicago Black Social Culture Map (CBSCM) team in collaboration with Actively Archiving and the Modern Dance Music & Archiving Foundation. For more information about the CBSCM, see https://www.honeypotperformance.org/about-the-cbscm

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About the Chicago Black Social Culture Map:
A collaboration between Honey Pot Performance, the Modern Dance Music Research and Archiving Foundation, the Blackivists, and a team of local cultural historians and cultural producers, the Chicago Black Social Map exists to preserve Chicago's Black social cultural lineage - past, present, and future - through an experience that is both fun and informative.

More info at: https://cbscmap.omeka.net/

The Chicago Black Social Culture Map community archive and programming is made possible in part by generous support from grants awarded by Gaylord and Dorothy Donnelley Foundation’s Broadening Narratives program and the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation’s Public Knowledge program.

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