“While studio photographers, especially Black studio photographers, have been thought of as outside the developments in ‘art photography’, they’re absolutely pushing it forward. They’re cognisant of everything that’s happening in the field and are capable of adopting what would have been referred to elsewhere as pictorial techniques, like shallow depth-of-field, highly retouched negatives and things that people often associate with pictorial photography.”⁠ ⁠ Curator Brian Piper [@piper804] of New Orleans Museum of Art discusses the largely underrepresented yet crucial narrative of Black studio photography in the medium’s history, which is the subject of an exhibition at the museum on show until 08 January 2023. ⁠ ⁠ Read this in-depth conversation via link in bio. ⁠ ⁠ 📷: @alannaairitam⁠ 🖊: @salaelise⁠ 🖼️: @neworleansmuseumofart⁠