Exhibit Review: Warwick Voices Through Photos

Maya Henderson’s “Just Jokes”

Gail Buckland, a professor of photography, wrote a beautiful review of an exhibit in New York. It was the culmination of a project organized by We the People Warwick, who were trained to use photovoice through a partnership between Interfaith Photovoice and Essential Partners with funding from the Fetzer Institute. We the People Warwick, are one of a dozen organizations that have been trained to engage their communities through photovoice through this initiative. 

“One of the most impressive pictures in the exhibition is Maya Henderson’s Just Jokes. Please don’t pass this still-life (full of life) by. Spend time with it. Three writing utensils, carefully placed, and a ruler on an angle cutting across the top right sit on a white board framing a handwritten diary. The composition draws the eye in and wham, the text tells it like it is. There was a racist remark, and Henderson’s words pour out. She asks why the slur, why not call her ‘the artsy one.’ I will call her the artsy one. Of all the photographs in the show, Henderson has taken the greatest aesthetic risk. I could see this picture hanging in the Museum of Modern Art.”

Read the full review here.