Join poet and essayist Dawn Lundy Martin for a conversation with artist Zun Lee and AGO Curator, Photography Sophie Hackett about the exhibition What Matters Most: Photographs of Black Life, featuring photographs from the AGO’s Fade Resistance Collection. Assembled by Zun Lee, the collection gathers Polaroid instant prints of African-American family life from the 1960s to the early 2000s. They will explore the role of photographs in creating and maintaining a sense of Black identity, memory and loss, the ethics of institutional versus communal care, and the importance of safeguarding visual culture. 

The event will launch the hardcover publication, co-published by the AGO and Delmonico Books/D.A.P., with texts by Lee and Hackett, as well as Dawn Lundy Martin, and cultural theorists Fred Moten and Stefano Harney.

Presented in conjunction with the exhibition What Matters Most: Photographs of Black Life.