Artist talk about memory, communal and familial photographic archives, and land sovereignty

About Kelvin Bulluck

Kelvin Bulluck is an award-winning portrait photographer specializing in editorial, fashion and beauty imagery. His photos have been featured in British Vogue, Harper’s Bazaar UK, Essence, Rolling Out Magazine, Bmore Art Magazine, The Washingtonian, Baltimore Style Magazine and on networks such as Lifetime, Bravo, Discover, OWN TV, MSNBC and Netflix. The concept of beauty has always been a curiosity for him. What is beauty? Why are some things deemed beautiful and others, not so much? It wasn’t until he discovered portrait photography that he realized he could explore these questions from his own point of view. He thrives on building a connection with those in front of his lens, while pinpointing and highlighting what he considers various aspects of their beauty.

About Darrius Fox

Darrius Fox is a 31-year-old lens-based artist from Baltimore, MD. He is a self-taught artist, initially working as a wedding photographer before transitioning to film photography. Intent on preserving the practice of analog photography, Fox shoots, develops, scans, and prints a majority of his images by hand. His photographs range from urban landscapes and portraiture to street scenes of everyday life.

About Ernest Shaw

Artist Ernest Shaw, Jr. was born and has spent the majority of his life in Baltimore, Maryland. Mr. Shaw hails from a family involved in visual and performing arts. Growing up in West Baltimore, I was consistently exposed to a range of influences and sources of inspiration. Mr. Shaw sincerely values the support and encouragement provided by his parents, particularly acknowledging the challenges inherent in nurturing a child artist. His work explores the duality of the African American experience, portrayed through a diverse range of media and concepts. The most prominent feature of his art is his sophisticated use of color and the depiction of figures. The figures in his artwork pay homage to a longstanding tradition of African and African American figurative art. Additionally, his mastery of color reflects a profound understanding of rhythm, which he acquired from several West African drum instructors.  

Ernest is a product of Baltimore City Public Schools.

He is a graduate of the Baltimore School for the Arts. He earned his Bachelor’s Degree in Art from Morgan State University and obtained his graduate degree from Howard University in Washington, D.C. Mr. Shaw is currently employed as a teacher in Baltimore City and serves as an adjunct professor at Coppin State University.

About Jasmine Gabrielle Washington

Jasmine Gabrielle Washington (b. 1996, Baltimore, MD) is an artist, curator, writer, and archival researcher living and working between Baltimore, New York, and Virginia. Her practice is composed of case studies drawn from lived and inherited field sites, concerned with the circulation of care: where care comes from, how it moves, who has access to it, and who determines the terms of that access. Working across photography, film, sound, writing, archives, and social work, she traces how people, histories, and ways of knowing are carried forward, asking how care and memory shape our understanding of ourselves and one another. Washington creates environments that slow perception and resist reduction, inviting sustained
attention to the complexity, humanity, and autonomy of human life. She is the founder of The U/Y/V Project, a philanthropic infrastructure cultivating the conditions in which culture, care, and public life can flourish—guided by the belief that humankind benefits from humankind. Washington serves as Guest Gallery Curator of Gormley Gallery at Notre Dame of Maryland University, where she has been reappointed through 2027. She is a 2026 Darryl Chappell Foundation Mentee under John Simmons, a recipient of the 2026 Fred Lazarus Award for
Social Change, a France-Merrick Fellow, and an MFA candidate in Photography + Media & Society at the Maryland Institute College of Art, where she studies under Bill Gaskins.