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MoCP and the School of Visual Arts at Columbia College Chicago welcome Leigh Raiford for a lecture and book signing as a partnership program between Lectures in Photography and the Art Now! Lecture Series.

Leigh Raiford is Professor of African American and African Diaspora Studies at the University of California, Berkeley, where she teaches, researches, curates, and writes about Black visuality and world-making. Building on the practices of Black American artists and activists, her recent book, When Home is a Photograph (Duke University Press, 2026), asks how Black people use images to make home in the world. Books will be available for purchase on-site.

6 pm Lecture in Ferguson Lecture Hall

7:30 – 8:30 pm Book signing in MoCP

Both Ferguson Lecture Hall and MoCP are located on the ground level of 600 S Michigan Ave.

This program is free and open to students, faculty, and the general public. Registration is required. https://bit.ly/4wGwulj by @mocpchi

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Please join MoCP for an evening lecture with Deborah Willis.

Artist, author, historian, and curator Deborah Willis uses the medium of photography to explore cultural histories related to gender and the Black body. A two-time NAACP Image Award recipient and Professor and Chair of the Department of Photography and Imaging at the Tisch School of the Arts at New York University, Willis’s seminal book Reflections in Black: A History of Black Photographers 1840 to the Present was recently republished for its 25th anniversary in 2025.

This program is free and open to students, faculty, and the general public. Registration is required. Please click the link to register. https://bit.ly/4xL53Ym by @mocpchi

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The MoCP was honored to welcome former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, former President Bill Clinton, and Dr. Chelsea Clinton this week for a special visit to our current exhibition, If Emmett Till Lived. We are grateful for the opportunity to share this powerful and thought-provoking exhibition with them.

If you haven't visited us yet, If Emmett Till Lived is currently on view. by @mocpchi

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Join MoCP, Filter Photo, Latitude Chicago, and other photography organizations for the Photography Guild at Arts in the Dark, Chicago’s annual Halloween parade celebrating the city’s vibrant arts and cultural community.

Photographers of all ages and experience levels are welcome to join the festivities. Just bring a camera of any kind and be part of the parade!

This event is free and open to all.

Artists, friends, patrons, and students transform into a group of mobile paparazzi, decorated with lights, to create suites of photographs from inside the parade and along the route engaging with the many spectators watching the artists' Halloween. Here are some photos from Arts in the Dark 2025 Digital Exhibition, to see more check out our digital exhibition page https://bit.ly/4i8FHi4

To learn more, or participate, please visit mocp.org.
To register, visit https://www.eventbrite.com/e/arts-in-the-dark-tickets-2002633064405

Photo courtesy of:
Second Slide - Micheal Zajakowski
Third Slide - Christopher Bonds
Fourth Slide - Alec Adriano by @mocpchi

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Join us October 28 @columbiachi when photographer and artist @tobishinobi breaks down Finding Your Perspective: building a visual voice, editing and presenting your work, and positioning yourself for the kind of clients and projects you actually want.

Tobi Shinobi is an award-winning photographer, videographer and creative strategist based between London and Chicago.

He has worked with Audi, Adobe and Sony, is a former Sony Global Imaging Ambassador and Adobe Lightroom Ambassador, and spent five years as Lead Creative Strategist at TikTok. With 175,000 followers across social platforms, his work is held in the permanent collection at Grand Valley State University, has been shown in Times Square and at SCOPE Miami Beach, and in 2026 he presented his solo exhibition A Shinobi Called Tobi in Madrid.

He is an MFA candidate at the @saicphotography and serves on the Museum Council at the @mocpchi

Register with the 🔗 in our bio - students with ID are free!! taken in Columbia College Chicago by @mocpchi

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We extend our deepest gratitude to Okla Jones at ESSENCE for his considered overview of the vital presence of Chicago’s Black artistic practices central to this year’s Chicago Exhibition Week (CXW).

“Chi-town has never needed much help proving the strength of its art scene, but Chicago Exhibition Week offered an unusually concentrated way to experience it,” Jones said. “Trying to experience everything would have been impossible. My time in Chicago instead became an opportunity to see several exhibitions with vastly different approaches to Black life, history and artistic practice, while getting a better understanding of the city through the spaces where the work was being presented.”

Throughout the week, Chicago’s artistic landscape emerged in its full breadth, shaped in meaningful part by the distinct perspectives and practices of Black artists and curators. From artists Lindsay Adams, Pope.L, and Karimah Ashadu to the curatorial brilliance of Hamza Walker, Jadine Collingwood, and Sarah Lewis, CXW’s programming illuminated the intellectual and creative contributions of Black artists and cultural practitioners to Chicago’s artistic identity and the cultural infrastructure that continues to nurture their work.

“That richness is such a defining part of Chicago,” described Chanelle Lacy, Head of Programming, Partnerships & Memberships at Gertie. “CXW gave us a platform to celebrate it, connect it, and bring more eyes to it.”

Read the full story at the link in bio.

@gertie.chicago @chicagoexhibitionweek @sarahelizabethlewis1 @mocpchi @rensoc @karimahashadu @hamza_walker @corbettvsdempsey @lindsaybriadams @patrongallery @mcachicago @coolhandoak @essence taken in Chicago, Illinois by @mocpchi

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The Museum of Contemporary Photography and Columbia College Chicago are pleased to announce Sujata Setia as the 2026–27 recipient of the Diane Dammeyer Fellowship in Photographic Arts and Social Issues. Now in its 11th cycle, the fellowship supports socially engaged photographers in developing new work that addresses human rights and social issues through sustained engagement with communities.

Setia is an Indian-born British artist whose interdisciplinary practice combines photography, participatory methods, and material interventions to examine gender-based violence, inherited trauma, and the long-term consequences of childhood abuse. Since 2020, she has been developing A Thousand Cuts, a project exploring domestic abuse within South Asian communities through survivor testimony and collaborative image-making. Setia has worked with survivor communities through organizations including Shewise UK and WeRestart, and has received support from King’s College London and the Economic and Social Research Council for a collaborative project with women embroidery artisans in Kashmir.

During her fellowship, Setia will spend time in Chicago working with local communities as she continues to develop A Thousand Cuts, culminating in a public presentation of the work in 2027. by @mocpchi

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There were many Tills.
There are many Tills today.

Emmett Till’s name and memory continues to shape struggles for racial justice, historical reckoning, and demand that America confront the violence of its past and present.

Watch the full video on the @visionandjustice YouTube channel (link in bio).

#IfEmmettTillLived taken in Museum of Contemporary Photography by @mocpchi

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James Baldwin once said, “There may not be as much humanity as one would like in the world, but there is enough.” For Sharon Davies, President and CEO of the @ketteringfoundation, “this exhibition tells us that there is enough humanity in our world.”

Watch the full video from our Opening Convening for “If Emmett Till Lived” at Museum of Contemporary Photography at Columbia College Chicago (@mocpchi) on the Vision & Justice YouTube channel (link in bio).

#IfEmmettTillLived taken in Museum of Contemporary Photography by @mocpchi

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We owe Lonnie Bunch a great debt for his service to this country, as the Secretary of the @smithsonian and founding director of the National Museum of African American History and Culture (@nmaahc). His contributions to this project were also enormous, as he shares in his essay for the book:

“Yet his life also inspired me to be ready to fight, to confront century- old traditions and not to simply accept the racial status quo. Emmett Till’s death and his life cast a large shadow over Americaa shadow that forced the country to grapple with the darkness, the vioence, and the hatred that was as much a part of our national character as the quest for freedom and fairness.”

Watch the full video on the @visionandjustice YouTube channel (link in bio).

#IfEmmettTillLived #LonnieBunch taken in Museum of Contemporary Photography by @mocpchi

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The history they tried to bury: in this video from our Opening Convening for “If Emmett Till Lived” at Museum of Contemporary Photography at Columbia College Chicago (@mocpchi), @paul_farber, director of @monument_lab describes the coalition that came together around Mamie Till-Mobley to change the world: “because of a mother’s will and the coalition around her.”

Farber was in conversation with lawyer, politician, and former Mayor of New Orleans, Mitch Landrieu (@mayorlandrieu) and president and CEO of the National Trust for Historic Preservation, Brent Leggs (@brentleggsnthp). Watch the full video on the Vision & Justice YouTube channel (link in bio).

#IfEmmettTillLived taken in Museum of Contemporary Photography by @mocpchi

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“When I was 14 I kissed a white girl, and I’m still here.”—Mitch Landrieu (@mayorlandrieu)

At the Opening Convening for “If Emmett Till Lived” at Museum of Contemporary Photography at Columbia College Chicago (@mocpchi), Lawyer, Politician, and former Mayor of New Orleans Mitch Landrieu reflects on “the real truth” of America.

Watch the full video on the Vision & Justice YouTube channel (link in bio).

#IfEmmettTillLived taken in Museum of Contemporary Photography by @mocpchi

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