Lighting a fire: Photography exhibition on view at Laney Contemporary

Steve Schapiro, Jackie Robinson, Rosa Parks, and Other Activists March on Washington,  1963

Connect Savannah
October 7, 2020
By Rachael Flora

Our country is in a dark place right now. We’re experiencing civil unrest that rivals the environment of the 1960s. In many ways, it feels like our country has gotten relatively nowhere in the last fifty years.

This exhibition, “The Fire Next Time” by Schapiro and “#1960Now” by Pree Bright, is an artistic representation of that feeling. Schapiro and Pree Bright, both photographic powerhouses in their own right, document similar subject matter occurring fifty years apart.

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Susan Laney