Bus Stops & Photo Plans

Over the course of this semester, Professor Gail Lewis opens each class prompting us to share some ‘bus stop’ moments – things we have witnessed, heard, or experienced in the past week that reminded us of the theory we have been covering all fall term. Half of this website is a celebration and commitment to this tradition. Songs, TikToks, journal entries, even text conversations are placed beside videos, voice memos and musings centered in theory. Everything that has ruminated in my mind has a home here. Rather than this project serving as merely a final showing for this class, I see Bus Stops instead as a home for a tradition I hope to continue long after this semester comes to a close.

December 12th, 2024

In my Thinking Space reflection midway through the semester, I spoke on the love I hold for photography and black theory:

“One of the things I find myself doing often is connecting artistic and photography theory with black theory to create a personalized archive of ‘black artist’ theory. For example, Catherine Lutz and Jane Collins’s “THE PHOTOGRAPH AS AN INTERSECTION OF GAZES” and Zora Neale Hurston’s “Spirituals and Neo-Spirituals” don’t have any explicit connections, but they form a perfect marriage in my mind that grounds my practice and understanding of the art I would like to / actually produce.“

Half of this site is devoted to this mission. With a newly expanded lexicon of theory rooted in black feminism, I seek to grow my understanding of photography and the ways it collides and/or harmonizes with blackness.

BUS STOPS

Social media

Carnival in UK

Produced Media

Arrested Development

PHOTO PLANS

“The Yalies”
“Olde Common”