Tyler Mitchell’s Photography Exhibition in New York Focuses on Family

I once walked into my family’s home to find it had been flooded. Water many inches deep pooled because a pipe in the apartment building had burst. My mother went in first, assessed the damage, turned to me, and said, “Save the photographs. Let the water take anything else.” In my family home, you could not walk more than three feet without seeing a photograph of an ancestor laid out in front of you on a glass table. There were portraits of great-aunts and great-grandparents who had come from the Caribbean, descendants of the enslaved and of slave-owners both—all the… Read Full Article