Photographic Center Northwest: John Henry’s Stranger Fruit

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January 11, 2024 – March 10, 2024

Photographic Center Northwest

From January 11 to March 10, 2024, Stranger Fruit will be up at the Photographic Center Northwest. New York artist John Henry uses both photography and text in this exhibition, creating photographs in reaction to the murder of black men by police in America. Henry set out to photograph mothers holding their sons, to examine the grief and pain of black mothers who remain to mourn their lost sons.

A black mother and presumably her two young children, hold horizontally the body of her third, older teenage son. He is shirtless and his eyes are closed
Jon Henry, Untitled 33
A black woman sits in a harvested, dry field, her adult son rests his head in her lap with his eyes closed, shirtless. Her hand frames his face, she frowns and looks at the audience.
Untitled #61, Omaha, NE (2020)
A black family sits inside a a room in the sunlight, the mother sits in a chair holding the body of her son, shirtless, his presumed brother sits beside her, looking at her as if to ask a question. She is looking at the audience with a blank stare.
Untitled #50, West Orange, NJ (2019)

For more information, or to RSVP, visit: https://pcnw.org/gallery/exhibitions/stranger-fruit-work-by-jon-henry/

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