'It's hard to stop rebels that time travel' PART IV with Raymond Thompson Jr.

 

'It's hard to stop rebels that time travel' PART IV with Raymond Thompson Jr.

Join us via Zoom Wednesday, July 23rd, at 7 pm EDT

Can we bend time back on itself through image, text, and narrative? Photographer Raymond Thompson Jr. is aspiring to do just that. ‘It’s hard to stop rebels that time travel’ is Raymond’s re-memory project that stretches across a 240-year period of time beginning with the hidden worlds of borderland maroons living on the margins of plantations in the 18th century to present-day counties surrounding New Bern, North Carolina.

Over the last two year, Raymond has offered us a behind-the-scenes look at his unfolding process and photographic book project via periodic check-ins and updates. For part IV of this journey, Raymond will be sharing his newly released book by Void, an art-house publisher of photography books. This stunning and multi-layered book features archival fragments, historic ephemera and his own photographs to focus on previously concealed stories of slaves, maroons, and runaways. ‘It’s hard to stop rebels that time travel’ aims to expand narratives about the Black experience and connection to the ‘American’ landscape. The images are a combination of contemporary portraits, landscape photographs, archival runaway slave adverts annotated by the artist, extracts of Black folklore, and news articles reporting lynchings and maps.

Please join us as we celebrate Raymond’s new book.

Buy the book here.

In preparation for this talk, check out Raymond’s previous talks:

See part I here.

See part II here.

See part III here.

 

Raymond Thompson Jr. is an interdisciplinary artist, educator, and visual journalist based in Austin, TX. He currently works as an Assistant Professor of Photojournalism at the University of Texas at Austin. He received an MFA in Photography from West Virginia University and a MA in Journalism from the University of Texas at Austin. He also graduated from the University of Mary Washington with a BA in American Studies. He has worked as a freelance photographer for The New York Times, The Intercept, NBC News, NPR, Politico, ProPublica, The Nature Conservancy, ACLU, WBEZ, Google, Merrell, and the Associated Press and was selected as one of the top 50 photographers for Critical Mass 2022.

Raymond Thompson Jr.

Raymond Thompson Jr.

Raymond Thompson Jr.

Susan Patrice

As the founder and director of Makers Circle, Susan Patrice designs and implements arts-informed community initiatives in partnership with non-arts organizations who want to expand their reach and impact through innovative cross-sector collaboration. Makers Circle has a deep passion for the power of the creative process to encourage adaptive change, expand awareness, and open up new ways of seeing and relating. We believe that the arts and artists should play a major role in community regeneration and non-profit advancement. Web design and digital storytelling are foundational to the work we do with non-profits.

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