»Working Together: The Photographers of the Kamoinge Workshop«

In the mid-20th century, African Americans were barely present in the US media and were portrayed primarily in a negative light. Capturing the lives of black people in artistically qualitative photographs was and is the concern of the photographer collective Kamoinge Workshop, which was founded in New York in 1963. The exhibition Working Together: The Photographers of the Kamoinge Workshop is the first major retrospective on the collective. It can be seen in Los Angeles at the Getty Center from 19 July to 9 October and was created in collaboration with the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts. The focus is on photographs from the 60s and 70s, including urban life, civil rights movements, portraits, experimental photography and jazz musicians.

Kamoinge (pronounced »kuh-moyn-gay« by the members) comes from the Kikuyu language spoken in Kenya and means something like »group of people acting together«. The workshop still exists today. Well-known members include Anthony Barboza, Herb Randall, Louis Draper and Roy DeCarava, who was the first director of the workshop.