The memorials are for the ancestors from coastal Africa through the Middle Passage to the Great Migration who braved the shark, lash and ropes. They are also for the those who are experiencing housing inequity because the rents are too high. Then there are those who are in the headwind of global migration. "The silence isn't quiet," as the songstress Andra Day put it in Rise Up.
Memorial for drowned African slaves during the Middle Passage.
Objects found at the Barry Farm public housing project where 444 low-income housing units are being razed, due, in part, to gentrification.
Objects found at the Barry Farm public housing project where 444 low-income housing units are being razed, due, in part, to gentrification.
2019 ©Joseph Young
Memorial for African slaves who were sold on the auction block in the Americas.
Objects found at the Barry Farm public housing project where 444 low-income housing units are being razed, due, in part, to gentrification.
Objects found at the Barry Farm public housing project where 444 low-income housing units are being razed, due, in part, to gentrification.
2019 ©Joseph Young
Memorial for the men, women and children who suffered the cruelty and barbarity of slavery in the Americas. Object found at the Barry Farm public housing project where 444 low-income housing units are being razed, due, in part, to gentrification.
2019 ©Joseph Young
Memorial for the men, women and children who suffered the lynchings and beatings by domestic terrorists after reconstruction.
2019 ©Joseph Young
Memorial for African Americans who were lynched after the Civil War. These two young Negro men, Dooley Morton and Bert Moore, were murdered in a brutal double lynching at Columbus, Mississippi"--We Charge Genocide.
According to the Equal Justice Initiative, 4,084 African-Americans were lynched between 1877 and 1950 in the South.
Objects found at Barry Farm public housing project where 444 low-income housing units are being razed, due, in part, to gentrification.
2019 ©Joseph Young
According to the Equal Justice Initiative, 4,084 African-Americans were lynched between 1877 and 1950 in the South.
Objects found at Barry Farm public housing project where 444 low-income housing units are being razed, due, in part, to gentrification.
2019 ©Joseph Young
Memorial for African Americans who were murdered at Barry Farm public housing project where 444 low-income housing units are being razed, due, in part, to gentrification. Objects found at Barry Farm public housing project.
2019 ©Joseph Young
Memorial for African Americans who were murdered at Barry Farm public housing project where 444 low-income housing units are being razed, due, in part, to gentrification. Objects found at Barry Farm public housing project.
2019 ©Joseph Young
Memorial for Antonio Dean, 24, who got into an argument during the dice game and was shot to death on August 15, 2015. 2019 ©Joseph Young
Memorial for African Americans who were murdered at Barry Farm public housing project where 444 low-income housing units are being razed, due, in part, to gentrification. Objects found at Barry Farm public housing project.
2019 ©Joseph Young
Memorial for Antonio Dean, 24, who got into an argument during the dice game and was shot to death on August 15, 2015. 2019 ©Joseph Young
Barry Farm public housing units being razed.
2019 © Joseph Young
2019 © Joseph Young
The Barry Farm public housing project. 2019 ©Joseph Young
At Barry Farm, streets named for abolitionist who fought to end slavery.
Barry Farm. 2019 © Joseph Young
Joseph Young
Joseph Young is a photographer living in Washington, DC. His photography has appeared in the Washington Post Magazine, Washington Times, Washington Afro Newspaper and Washington Informer. He earned a bachelor degree in art from the University of the District of Columbia, with a focus on photography, as well as, a bachelor degree in English. He is also the grant recipient from the DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities for his photography series about the homeless in the nation's capital. His photography has been included in a group show at the GalleryOonH in Washington, DC, Gallery 42 at the University of the District of Columbia and the Malsi Doyle and Michael Forman Theater at American University.
As for his influences, well, of course, Paul Strand, Lewis Hine, W. Eugene Smith, Robert Frank, Gordon Parks, Roy Decarava, Ernest Withers, Edward Hopper, Latoya Ruby Frazier, John Szarkowski, who said photography was born perfect and the Emmett Till open casket photo.
