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Joeonna Bellorado-Samuels

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Still workshopping the group name, but we’re already BIG in Japan 💿☁️✨ taken in Tokyo - Japan 東京 by @joeonna

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Gordon Parks was one of the most influential American artists of the twentieth century, a pioneering photographer, filmmaker, writer, and composer whose work reshaped how Black life was seen and understood. As the first African American staff photographer at Life magazine, Parks used his camera to confront racism, poverty, and segregation while revealing the dignity, beauty, and complexity of his subjects. His practice extended beyond documentation, making art a powerful instrument for social justice and a means of giving visibility to lives and experiences too often excluded from the American narrative.

In the video, Joeonna Bellorado-Samuels (@joeonna), a senior director at Jack Shainman Gallery (@jackshainman), introduces 'Gordon Parks: Voices in the Mirror' at the gallery’s Tribeca location. Marking the 20th anniversary of The Gordon Parks Foundation (@gordonparksfoundation), the exhibition brings together Parks’s photographs with the memories and perspectives of the people he documented. These personal stories offer a deeper understanding of the circumstances behind the images, from experiences of segregation to the tenderness and complexity of everyday Black life.

Visit 'Gordon Parks: Voices in the Mirror' at Jack Shainman Gallery in Tribeca through November 6. by @joeonna

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🇨🇳 送我回上海

Thalita Hamaoui
François Morellet
Ugo Pozzo
Vincent Lamouroux
Stanley Whitney
Véronique Joumard
Su Yu-Xin
Chuang Che
Jinkun Zhu taken in Shanghai 上海外灘 by @joeonna

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🖤 Zhujiajiaooooooo 🚣🏿🇨🇳✨✨✨ taken in 朱家角古鎮 by @joeonna

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🖤🇰🇷 Seoultrain Mixtape Vol II

Toyin Ojih Odutola
Maria Berrio
Otobong Nkanga
Lee Bae
Mark Bradford
Lee Ufan
Lynette Yiadom Boakye
Sonia Gomes
Sangdon Kim
Kimsooja by @joeonna

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🖤🇰🇷 Seoultrain ✨

Do Ho Suh
Christine Sun Kim
Celedon at Leeum
Kim Bohie
Jong Oh
Olafur Eliasson taken in 서울 - Seoul by @joeonna

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RENT FREE 🖤 Still thinking of the home and studio of legend Tomie Ohtake in São Paulo. 🖤 🇧🇷

*had to liberate these pics from favorites folder

🖤 @institutotomieohtake by @joeonna

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🖤🔥✨✨ @inhotim 🙌🏽 taken in Inhotim Museu Aberto de Arte Contemporânea by @joeonna

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🖤 o Paulista💧 taken in São Paulo, Brazil by @joeonna

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♾️🌱 by @joeonna

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🖤🇧🇷✨✨✨ taken in Salvador, Bahia, Brazil by @joeonna

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🕯️🖤🕯️❤️‍🔥🔥✨✨✨ taken in Cachoeira, Bahia, Brazil by @joeonna

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