FotoFest | Wendel A. White on “Difficult Histories”
Camp Logan, Houston, August 23, 1917, Kingston Daily Freeman, Kingston, New York, August 24, 1917; courtesy of the artist.
March 28, 2024
Join photographer Wendel A. White as he presents a lecture Red Summer: Landscape and Archive in African American Historical Memory, which is based upon his FotoFest Participating Spaces Exhibition Wendel A. White: Difficult Histories.
Red Summer combines photographs of the contemporary landscape with fragments of contemporaneous newspaper reporting of racial conflicts that occurred in the United States between 1917 and 1923. White’s use of the landscape and artifacts as interrelated expressions of historical narratives are means of excavating and memorializing Black life in America.
Wendel A. White: Difficult Histories is on view through April 21 at the First Unitarian Universalist Church of Houston, 5200 Fannin, Monday–Thursday, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.; Saturday, 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.; and Sunday, 1 p.m. to 4 p.m.
Plan Your Visit
- Admission is free. The lecture takes place in Favrot Auditorium at the Glassell School of Art. Seating is available on a first-come, first-served basis.
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