JAMEL SHABAZZ (1960- )
Untitled.

Silver print, 2000. 330x228 mm; 13x9 inches. Signed in ink, verso.

Shot in the SoHo neighborhood of New York City, Untitled is an analog work from photographer Jamel Shabazz. Inspired by Leonard Freed, James VanDerZee, and Gordon Parks, Shabazz is a masterful documentarian of urban life. His work records self-determination and joy within a collaborative effort with his subjects. Focused on the environs of his home in Brooklyn and New York City, Shabazz has been actively documenting the life of African Americans, LantinX, and other communities for over forty years.

Shabazz is rooted within the youth of his community and has been a teaching artist with Rush Philanthropic Arts Foundation, Bronx Museum’s Teen Council youth program, International Center of Photography, Friends of the Island Academy and Studio Museum in Harlem’s Expanding the Walls Project. He has exhibited at the Brooklyn Museum, Newark Museum, Victoria and Albert Museum, Studio Museum in Harlem, and Duke University. Shabazz is also the author of five monographs and has contributed to numerous others. In 2022, the Bronx Museum mounted the artist's first retrospective Jamel Shabazz: Eyes on the Street, organized by curator Antonio Sergio Bessa.

Consigned to support the Rush Philanthropic Arts Foundation.