Black Photojournalism Closing Celebration

Symposia Sat., Jan. 17, 11 a.m.

WhenUpcoming: Sat., Jan. 17, 2026, 11 a.m.–3 p.m.
Tickets: Free, registration recommdned
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Join us for a day of connecting the photographs within Black Photojournalism to the histories we live in the wake of, the questions we ask now, and the way we envision our futures. Through workshops, gallery conversations, and listening in honor of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. weekend, we will take one last close look at Black Photojournalism.

Black Photojournalism: Seeing Our Memories

11 a.m. | Art Theater
Please join our close looking conversation facilitated by Black Photojournalism curators, Dan Leers and Charlene Foggie-Barnett along with community Elders. Together, we will look deeply and expansively at a selection of photographs as a way to surface personal and collective memories and histories.

Fellowship Reception

Noon–1 p.m. | Art Theater hallway

Musical Performance

Heinz Galleries | 12:30 p.m.
Join us in the galleries for looking at photographs with music by Madame Mary Caldwell Dawson Chapter of the National Association of Negro Musicians.

Black Photojournalism: Our Histories, Today

Art Theater | 1–2 p.m.
Journalist and storyteller, Dr. Ervin Dyer, artist and founder of Black Archives, Renata Cherlise, photojournalist and artist, Michael Santiago join in conversation moderated by educator, Jason Butler to reflect, ask questions and propel from the living archive and contemporary practice of liberation that is Black Photojournalism.

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About Black Photojournalism

black photo journalist gallery exhibition

Black Photojournalism

Sept. 13, 2025–Jan. 19, 2026

Black Photojournalism presents work by more than 40 photographers chronicling historic events and daily life in the United States from the conclusion of World War II in 1945 to the presidential campaigns of 1984, including the civil rights movements through the 1950s, 60s, and 70s.

Heinz Galleries

Support

Black Photojournalism is presented by BNY.

Major support for this exhibition has been provided by the Virginia Kaufman Endowment. Significant support for this exhibition has been provided by the Terra Foundation for American Art.

Black Photojournalism has been made possible in part by a major grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities: Democracy demands wisdom.

Additional support for this exhibition has been provided by the Massey Charitable Trust.

Support for this exhibition’s catalogue has been provided by Arts, Equity, & Education Fund^TM, the Wyeth Foundation for American Art, and John Bauerlein.

In-kind support for this exhibition has been provided by Herman Miller.

Carnegie Museum of Art’s exhibition program is supported by the Carnegie Museum of Art Exhibition Fund and The Fellows of Carnegie Museum of Art.

Carnegie Museum of Art is supported by The Heinz Endowments and Allegheny Regional Asset District. Carnegie Museum of Art receives state arts funding support through a grant from the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts, a state agency funded by the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.

Any views, findings, conclusions, or recommendations expressed in this exhibition do not necessarily represent those of the National Endowment for the Humanities.