Photo Show Live
Photo Show Live will be at the JKC Gallery in Trenton, NJ on September 22nd at 12 noon and on Zoom with photographer and professor, Collette Fournier.
Collette Fournier is a member of Kamoinge, the famed group founded by Civil Rights Era photographers such as Roy DeCarava.
A selection of photographs by Fournier will be on display in the gallery during the week of September 19th.
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Bio:
Collette V. Fournier has an MFA in Visual Arts from Vermont College and a BSfrom RIT in Communications and Photographic Illustration. Born in Harlem,she grew up in Brooklyn and Queens, NY. She is the retired staff photographerfrom Rockland Community College and adjuncts in the Photography Department.
Fournier worked as a staff photographer for The Rockland Journal-News, The Bergen Record, about…time magazine, and freelanced for The New York Post. Earlier in her career she worked in the television industry.
Fournier curated several exhibitions including a multi-sited exhibition “There is a World Through Our Eyes: Perceptions and Visions of the African American Photographer” exhibited at RCC, ACOR, Arts Alliance of Haverstraw (AAH!), Rockland Center for the Arts (ROCA) and Blue Hill in 1993 in Rockland County. Fournier has had fifteen one-woman exhibitions and participated in over forty group shows. She vigorously exhibits her photography and was the recipient of the prestigious Rockland Arts Council County Executive Award.
Fournier is an active member of Kamoinge Inc., an African American photography collective since 2001, “Timeless” was published to celebrate the Collective’s 50th year (kamoinge.com). As a Soros fellow (OSI), she documented Post Hurricane Katrina. Her award-winning documentation of “A Ripple of Thunder: Black Motorcyclists in America” was recently exhibited in Photoville Fences 9th Edition. She has written a book on her 40-year journey through photography.
Fournier’s photography work is collected in Photography Collections Preservation Project (PCCP), Social Documentary Network, Brooklyn Museum of Art, Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Smithsonian Institute, WDC, Finkelstein Memorial Library, Women International Archive, CA. and in private collections.
Photo Show Live is a live format of the Real Photo Show podcast. Shows will be connected to events at the JKC Gallery and other events such as artist’s book launches.
The show is in three acts
– A discussion about the artist
– The artist presentation
– Q&A from the audience and few wrap up questions from the host
The podcast is downloadable on all of the podcast platforms and the video is on the Photo Show Live YouTube channel.
Thanks for listening and I hope to see you at the next show.
Michael Chovan-Dalton
Producer of Real Photo Show
Director of the JKC Gallery