The Role of Photography in Shaping How the World Sees Us with Jesse Clark
Jesse Clark, To Sting Like a Bee
The Role of Photography in Shaping How the World Sees Us with Jesse Clark
Join us via Zoom Wednesday, September 27th, at 7 pm EDT
Join us for a dynamic and rich conversation with Jesse Clark as we explore how the camera can be used as a tool to express ourselves–reshaping how the world might perceive us aside from how we perceive the world.
Jesse Clark will dive into how he uses his photographic practice to showcase positive representations of Blackness through various works from his photo series My Beautiful, Everglow, and To Sting Like A Bee.
As Kinship begins our inquiry into the role of the body (and the senses) in image making, Jesse will be sharing how dance (his first creative medium) has shaped his practice. For Jesse, gesture is essential to his photography. Here, he takes inspiration from ballet with its vocabulary of soft, upright movement.
Together, we will explore and question how our daily movements and embodied gestures (and identities) might inform our own photographic practices and the role of photography in helping shape the way the world see us.
Jesse Clark is Haitian-American photographer based in Florida. Clark received his B.F.A. in Photography and Imaging from Ringling College of Art + Design in 2023. Clark’s work can be described as vibrant and poetic, with its soft visualizations of Black identity and beauty. Clark is interested in combating outdated perceptions and misrepresentations of Blackness within the media. Clark’s photography has been exhibited in SPAACES Gallery, Art Center Sarasota and Mara Studio + Gallery. He has been featured in Sarasota Magazine, WEDU-PBS, and Stories To Change The World–International Activist Collection, and Photo Vogue.
Jesse Clark, To Sting Like a Bee
Jesse Clark, To Sting Like a Bee
Jesse Clark, Portrait of Sam
Jesse Clark, Black Boy America
Jesse Clark, American Boy
