Sunday, November 16, 2025
3 – 5 PM
25 Dederick Street, Kingston, NY
On November 16, we have an artists’ talk that we are especially excited to have lined up: photographer Rahim Fortune and scholar Nicole R. Fleetwood will meet to discuss issues raised by their current CPW exhibitions, Kinship & Community: Selections from the Texas African American Photography Archive and Rahim Fortune: Between a Memory and Me. Both exhibitions touch on the role of photography in small communities, shared and traditional cultural practices, the relationship between contemporary photography and the archive, and, more generally, the photograph as a repository of local memory. Please RSVP at the link below.
Having Rahim and Nicole together in one room on a Sunday afternoon will not disappoint! If you haven’t seen it, Rahim’s portrait and landscape work at CPW captures American identity in the Texan south, exploring the connections between families and communities, the histories embedded in the landscapes they inhabit, and the traditions folks carry forward. The connection with Nicole is that part of his project is new color photography that he created in response to the Texas African American Photography Archive (TAAP) as a commission from Aperture and Documentary Arts. Nicole drew on that archive to organize the wonderful images of Texan small towns in the Kinship exhibition, which focuses on Black community photographers working in urban neighborhoods in Dallas, Houston, and small towns in East Texas from 1942 to 1984, against the backdrop of segregation. Rahim’s project essentially updated the TAAP archive, affirming the startling continuity of community life recorded in it.
Admission is FREE. Available on livestream as well at CPW YouTube channel, 3PM.
Images © Rahim Fortune