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SUMMARY:Virginia McGee Richards & James Estrin in Conversation: The Inner
  Passage (Online)
DESCRIPTION:The Griffin Museum is pleased to host an online conversation with
  artist\, photographer\, researcher\, and former environmental lawyer
  Virginia McGee Richards\, joined by James Estrin\, staff photographer
  and writer at The New York Times\, to discuss Richards' recently
  published book The Inner Passage: An Untold Story of Black Resistance
  Along a Southern Waterway. 
 
 The Inner Passage will be published by MIT Press in April 2026. The
  work uncovers a little-known chapter of American history: a 300-mile
  network of colonial-era canals carved by enslaved people along the
  Atlantic coast from Charleston\, SC\, to St. Augustine\, FL. These
  waterways later became a covert route to freedom\, providing thousands
  of enslaved people with a safer passage than land-based routes. 
 
 Over the past decade\, Richards has photographed these landscapes
  using a large-format wooden camera and the 19th-century wet-plate
  collodion process--its alchemical unpredictability echoing the
  watery\, shifting environments she documents. The book will feature 60
  photographic plates alongside stories from Gullah Geechee and
  Indigenous families\, as well as generations of watermen and women
  whose lives remain bound to these waterways. 
 
 The Inner Passage brings together technically rigorous analogue
  photography\, a contemporary documentary sensibility\, and a powerful
  historical narrative exploring labor\, resistance and landscape. 
 
 Join us online on May 6 at 7:00 pm for this illuminating conversation
  to learn more about the project\, its evolution into book form\, and
  the layered histories held within these landscapes. 
 
 © Virginia McGee Richards© Virginia McGee Richards© Virginia McGee
  Richards© Virginia McGee Richards© Virginia McGee Richards©
  Virginia McGee Richards© Virginia McGee Richards© Virginia McGee
  Richards© Virginia McGee Richards
 
 About the Speakers
 
 Virginia McGee Richards is a photographer\, researcher\, and former
  environmental lawyer whose work explores landscape as a living
  archive. Born and raised in the Carolinas\, she grew up immersed in
  Southern geographies and rural life--formative experiences that anchor
  her artistic practice. Landscapes are like manuscripts\, she notes.
  They record\, they hold\, and they can render histories--even in the
  absence of documents. She belongs to the first generation of American
  schoolchildren to attend racially integrated public schools following
  federal desegregation orders--an experience that deeply informed her
  interest in communities\, boundaries\, and the layered histories
  embedded in place.https://www.ginnarichards.com/@virginiamcgeerichards
 
 James Estrin has been a staff photographer and writer at The New York
  Times since 1992. He was a founder and editor of Lens\, the
  photography blog The Times published from 2009 to 2019 and was an
  originator of the New York Portfolio Review. James was part of the
  team that won a Pulitzer Prize in 2001 for How Race Is Lived in
  America. He was also the co-executive producer of the documentary film
  Underfire: The Untold Story of Pfc. Tony Vaccaro\, which debuted on
  HBO in 2016. He is an adjunct professor at the Craig Newmark Graduate
  School of Journalism at the City University of New York.
LOCATION:https://griffinmuseum.org/event/mcgee_estrin_photobook/
URL:https://griffinmuseum.org/event/mcgee_estrin_photobook/
CATEGORIES:Cultural\,Education
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