Arts & Entertainment
New Crown Heights Photo Exhibit Shows Love, Respect For Brooklyn
The photo and digital media exhibit called "This BE Us: We Live In Brooklyn, Baby!" opened this week at Medgar Evers College.
CROWN HEIGHTS, BROOKLYN — A new photography and digital media group exhibition in Crown Heights promises to show how nearly 10 photographers love and respect Kings County.
The exhibit, called "This BE Us: We Live In Brooklyn, Baby!" opened this week at the Charles Evans Inniss Memorial Library at Medgar Evers College with work by several Brooklyn-based photographers for Black History Month.
The show opened this week and will remain at the second floor of the library at 1650 Bedford Ave. until March 13.
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In the group show, the images focus on exploring the Black Diaspora in Brooklyn and its cultural, historical and traditional influences impressed onto the borough at large.
The photographers include Jamel Shabazz, Laylah Amatullah Barrayn, Kay Hickman and curator Marcia Wilson.
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Funding and support came from the Brooklyn Arts Council, Faith Art Gallery and Medgar Evers College.
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