JAMEL SHABAZZ

Artist Featured in Upcoming Show

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curated by sienide

Jamel  Shabazz

Bio 02- 2010

 Jamel shabazz says his work is focused on the human experience, which is clearly supported by the titles of some of his two dozen solo exhibitions: “Men of Honor”, A Time Before Crack”, “ Back In the Days”, “When  Two Worlds Meet”, and “ Decisive Moments,” which have been shown from Canada to Argentina, Korea,  Italy, England, France and Germany,  as well as throughout the United States. An even longer list of group showings at the Brooklyn Museum,  the Bronx Museum of the Art and other locations, bears such titles as: “Glimpses in Time”, ‘” Posing Beauty”,  “ Black Style Now”, “ Bebop to Hip Hop”, “ Under One Grove”,  “ Street Art, Street Life” , and “ 1968 – Then and Now”.

 Four monographs of his work has been published: Back in the Days, The Last Sunday in June, A Time Before Crack, and Seconds of my Life. And he has collaborated on countless others.

Shabazz studied at John Jay College of Criminal Justice, and is a retired member of the New City Correction Department, he has mentored  both teens and adults in his style of street photography and he is a member of the photo group Kamoinge and  is a teaching artist with the Rush Philanthropic Arts Foundation. This varied and diverse background has prompted Ken Johnson to call him, “ the best kind of photojournalist: one driven by curiosity about other human beings,”  as he continues meticulously documenting life both in New York and globally.