Visit the ICP library as photographer Accra Shepp joins host Idris Talib Solomon for a live taping of Black Shutter Podcast. Before the program, explore Shepp’s work, which documents the Occupy Wall Street Movement, on view in American Job: 1940-2011, as well as our other exhibitions, Weegee: Society of the Spectacle and To Conjure: New Archives in Recent Photography
About Black Shutter Podcast
The Black Shutter Podcast is a series of conversations with Black photographers, filmmakers, editors, and creative business folks. You will hear about their work, their challenges, and their inspirations revolving around photography.
Black Shutter podcast can be listened to directly on the Black Shutter Podcast website. It is also available on Apple Podcasts, Google Play, Spotify or Stitcher. The episode taped at ICP will be released at a later date.
Idris Talib Solomon is an award-winning photojournalist and art director. Mr. Solomon has a versatile background in graphic design, photography, video, and art direction. He has several years of experience in advertising and is currently on contract at HBO as an art director. He has photographed for The New York Times, Amazon Prime TV, HBO, ESPN, Reuters and The Drone Racing League. He is the host and Creative Director of The Black Shutter Podcast.
Accra Shepp is a New York–based artist and writer. His images have been exhibited worldwide and are in the collections of the Museum of Modern Art, the Victoria and Albert Museum, and other institutions. His writing has appeared in The New York Times and the New York Review of Books as well as the artist book Atlas (in the collection of the Whitney Museum and the New York Public Library), and Windbook, an artist-book installation at the National Library of Luxembourg. The installation, which explored ethnicity and national identity, was a year-long project where the book was outside exposed to the elements with only the wind to turn its pages. He is currently working on a photo-based project titled “The Covid Journals.”
