Photoville – an annual outdoor celebration of photography has a couple of sites in Harlem:
Location number 8 on the map (above) is on the esplanade walking and biking path along the East River, between 97th and 98th Streets.
The photography represents an afro-futurist vision of presence in an imagined, retro future. The images are complemented by text from writers and thinkers on the Black role in both the imagined and actual future.
Lola Flash, entitled her series syzygy, and notes that:
My soul is hopeful for a divine future where we are finally able to run anew
For more, see the Photoville website. This project is up until early December.
Uptown Lions
NYPL may have Patience and Fortitude, Uptown has this regal pair.
