The Black Rest Project presents Joshua Rashaad McFadden: I Believe I’ll Run On

In celebration of American visual artist and Assistant Professor of Photography at Rochester Institute of Technology, Joshua Rashaad McFadden’s recently released book, I Believe I’ll Run On, we are pleased to have him present this masterful tome, how it fits into the larger themes he explores in his work, and to have him in conversation with fellow American artist, Lyle Ashton Harris.

By observing the interiority and quietude of Black people, despite the arduous marathon towards justice and the various trials and tribulations that simultaneously impede and inspire it, McFadden’s photographs explore and celebrate the intimacies of Black life in the United States. This early-career survey not only demonstrates McFadden’s mastery of a wide range of photographic genres—social documentary, reportage, portraiture, book arts, and fine arts—and his use of the medium to confront racism and anti-Black violence, but also is a testament to the healing and protective possibilities of turning…