The Last Black Man In Chocolate City
By
Joseph Young
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Joseph Young
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This go-around, according to the latest count, more than 40,000 African Americans have been forced from their homes or to areas outside of Washington, D.C. The rents have risen too damn high. The collective suffering of the dispossessed is horrendous. The photographs in this essay are a witness to our determination not to be devalued. The fewer there are of Blacks in neighborhoods the more the property value increases. We are tired, but we will find our determination in one another, to be free of white supremacy. As one, we will win our struggle. We will win our struggle because evil contains the seed of its own destruction. Second Chronicles 20:17 says, "You will not have to fight this battle. Take up your positions; stand firm and see the deliverance the LORD will give you, Judah and Jerusalem. Do not be afraid; do not be discouraged. Go out to face them tomorrow, and the LORD will be with you."
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Joseph Young is a photographer living in Washington, DC. His photography has appeared in the Washington Post Magazine, Washington Times, Washington Afro Newspaper and Washington Informer. He earned a bachelor degree in art from the University of the District of Columbia, with a focus on photography, as well as, a bachelor degree in English. He is also the grant recipient from the DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities for his photography series about the homeless in the nation's capital. His photography has been included in a group show at the GalleryOonH in Washington, DC, Gallery 42 at the University of the District of Columbia and the Malsi Doyle and Michael Forman Theater at American University.
As for his influences, well, of course, Paul Strand, Lewis Hine, W. Eugene Smith, Robert Frank, Gordon Parks, Roy Decarava, Ernest Withers, Edward Hopper, Latoya Ruby Frazier, John Szarkowski, who said photography was born perfect and the Emmett Till open casket photo.
As for his influences, well, of course, Paul Strand, Lewis Hine, W. Eugene Smith, Robert Frank, Gordon Parks, Roy Decarava, Ernest Withers, Edward Hopper, Latoya Ruby Frazier, John Szarkowski, who said photography was born perfect and the Emmett Till open casket photo.
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