Cross-posted from Vulture – New York Magazine. [By Shirley Ngozi Nwangwa] “For the photographers of the Kamoinge Workshop, the moment was always now.” “Black is in now,” the photographer Beuford Smith tells me, referring to the current vogue among white-led cultural institutions and capitalist pursuits for tapping into the wellspring of our Black matter and belatedly recognizing and compensating Black artists for their labor. Smith is president emeritus of the Kamoinge Workshop, a fine-arts collective…
