Vanessa Leroy: there’s a place i want to take you

November 4, 2022 – January 1, 2023
Opening Reception: Friday, November 4th, 5-8pm

From the Artist:

Within this book of cloth cyanotypes, I’ve created a dreamlike map of my experience of black girlhood, and these pages serve as a bridge to my present experience. You’ll find journal entries from the 5th grade, family scrapbook photographs, passing thoughts, music lyrics, and images I’ve taken between 2014 and 2019. I wanted to re-contextualize these artifacts by exposing them to light, creating diptychs, inserting text and illustrations, and binding the timeline with thread.

Biography

Vanessa Leroy (b. 1996) is a freelance photographer and photo editor based in Boston, Massachusetts. She holds a BFA in Photography from Massachusetts College of Art and Design. She remains on the hunt for new ways of seeing, remembering, and altering the world through photography. She is drawn to image-making because of the power it holds to create nuanced representations for marginalized people and uplift their stories. She sees photography as a tool for social justice, and with it, she hopes to create worlds that people feel as though they can enter and draw from, as well as provide a look into an experience that they may not personally recognize. Her photojournalism work has been featured in The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal, NPR, STAT News, Bloomberg, The Guardian, HuffPost and exhibited at Gallery Kayafas in Boston, MA — where she is represented.

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This exhibition has been made possible with support from Gallery Kayafas, Boston, MA