Healing Arts is a global campaign by the Jameel Arts & Health Lab in collaboration with the World Health Organization
Healing Arts is a global campaign by the Jameel Arts & Health Lab in collaboration with the World Health Organization
30 January 2026 | 6 - 8PM 20 Cooper Square, 4th Floor Flex Space, NY, 10003
Reflecting how photography becomes a medium not only for survival and testimony, but also for re-imagining identity, kinship, and belonging.
The Center for Black Visual Culture, the Department of Social & Cultural Analysis, and Tilt Institute are pleased to present a public conversation with artist Larry W. Cook and scholar and curator Dr. Nicole R. Fleetwood, focusing on contemporary photographic practices among system-impacted artists on January 30 from 6:00 - 8:00 in Flex Space (4th Floor of 20 Cooper Square, New York, NY) Cook and Fleetwood will discuss how system-impacted photographers are generating new image cultures that exceed the limits of criminal index/surveillance strategies and their aesthetics: experimenting with self-representation, collaborating across distance and time, building personal and collective archives, and creating new visual languages of representation, refusal, and futurity. Together, they will reflect on how photography becomes a medium not only for survival and testimony, but also for re-imagining identity, kinship, and belonging.
Wherever There Is Light is on display at the Cooper Square Gallery at NYU (Ground Floor of 20 Cooper Square, New York, NY) from January 29 to February 27, 2026.
