Stephen Shames @ Mougins Centre de la Photographie

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Stephen Shames @ Mougins Centre de la Photographie

July 19th, 2024 by fstop

Left: March 31, 1972, Oakland, California, USA: Testing for Sickle Cell Anemia at Community Survival Conference. Right: 1972 Oakland, California, USA: Ruby Moore, Sickle Cell Tester, pricks a man’s finger to test for Sickle Cell during Bobby Seale’s campaign for Mayor of Oakland.

Stephen Shames – COMRADE SISTERS: WOMEN OF THE BLACK PANTHER PARTY
JUNE 28-OCTOBER 6, 2024

Stephen Shames was a 20-year-old college student at Berkeley when he first came into contact with the Black Panther Party. With the backing of the co-founders, Bobby Seale and Huey Newton, Stephen was given full access to photograph the protests and rallies and also tender behind-the-scenes moments of party members with their families. A relatively unknown aspect of the Black Panther Party, which these photographs bring to light, is the place occupied by women, among them Gloria Abernethy, Evon Carter, Kathleen Cleaver, Angela Davis, Ericka Huggins, and Adrienne Humphrey who were on the front line of every struggle. It’s estimated that six out of ten Panther Party members were women. While these remarkable women of all ages and diverse backgrounds were regularly making headlines, these same women were building communities and enacting social justice, providing food, housing, education, healthcare, and more to the people. Comrade Sisters is their story. As Angela Davis points out, this exhibition “reminds us that women were literally at the heart of this new political approach to Black freedom.”

Mougins Centre de la Photographie
43 Rue de l’Église, 75015, Mougins, France
https://centrephotographiemougins.com

Location: Mougins Type: Exhibition

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