Exciting to see 'Baldwin Lee' from @hunterspointpress featured in this Opinion piece by @margaret.renkl @nytimes !!⁠ ⁠ "When Baldwin Lee set out in March 1983 to photograph the American South, he was a stranger in a strange land. The New York-born son of Chinese immigrants, he had moved to Knoxville to establish the photography program at the University of Tennessee. When he left on his first of many photographic trips across the South, he was open to whatever subjects might draw his attention. “I had no agenda, no plan,” he told The New Yorker’s @weistwiley “I took pictures of everything: landscapes, architecture, close-ups, still lifes, pictures at night, people, old, young, white, Black, poor, rich. I just wanted to see.”⁠ ⁠ Along the way, though, he became attuned to the colossal racial injustice still rampant in the American South. He found his subject: Black Southerners living out their daily lives against a backdrop of poverty.⁠ ⁠ Now, nearly 40 years later, his first solo exhibition is on display at the @howardgreenberggallery in NY through Nov. 12. The show coincides with the publication of a newly released monograph of Mr. Lee’s photographs. They represent only a small portion of the nearly 10,000 images Mr. Lee created during the 1980s...."⁠ ⁠ Read the full piece via linkinbio.⁠ ⁠ Exhibition travels to @josephbellowsgallery & @davidhill_photo⁠ ⁠ @baldwinlee1951 @bkulok @teacherbell @caseygerald #baldwinlee #blackamericans #americansouth⁠