Events

© Shunney Nair In partnership with Levy Park Conservancy, Houston Center for Photography is pleased to present a virtual opening reception for our virtual exhibition, Views from Levy Park. As a culmination of the Levy Park Photography Workshop, our yearlong community education program, this exhibition will include photographic works by artists who participated in our monthly workshops offered free to the community from May 2019 – April 2020. Representing a vast range of styles, all photographs were created at Levy Park under…

Dr. Tanisha Ford In conjunction with the exhibition, Tools of Revolution: Fashion Photography and Activism, Houston Center for Photography presents a lecture by Dr. Tanisha C. Ford on the under-recognized photographic work of Harlem-based, Civil Rights activist and photographer, Kwame Brathwaite. Having written extensively about Brathwaite's work in Kwame Brathwaite: Black Is Beautiful (Aperture, 2019), Dr. Ford's expertise on the artist combined with her scholarship on fashion and activism will offer our Houston community unique insight into the powerful intertwining…

Houston Center for Photography’s Words & Pictures Lecture Series is excited to bring together Sasha Wolf, independent curator and lecturer, and Malcolm Daniel, the Gus and Lyndall Wortham Curator of Photography at Museum of Fine Arts Houston, in a virtual conversation on the topic of her recently-published book, PhotoWork: Forty Photographers on Process and Practice. Across forty Q&A-style interviews, Wolf poses the same set of questions about photographic approach to forty leading photographers working in the field today, including Alejandro…