Jamaican Herb Robinson is one of 14 photographers in the Whitney Museum’s exhibition, Working Together: The Photographers of the Kamoinge Workshop. The show chronicles the early work of the Kamoinge Workshop, a collective of Black photographers formed in New York City at the height of the civil rights movement in 1963. The show will be at the Whitney till March 28.
Robinson moved from Jamaica to New York when he was five. An original member of Kamoinge, his early photos are black and white street scenes, abstracts and portraits influenced by the famous African American photographer Roy DeCarava who died in 2009. “My instrument is the camera,” says Robinson on his website, “it is the vessel that responds to and carries my emotions.”
He has exhibited widely in galleries, museums and institutions across the United States. His work was included in the Tate Modern exhibition Soul of a Nation: Art in the Age of Black Power, that opened in London in 2017.
Kamoinge in Kikuyu means a “group of people acting together.” The original collective met to discuss and critique each other’s works, that often showed how they perceived and interacted in their communities.
Learn more about Robinson and his work with Kamoigne here.
"Herb Robinson, mmoja wa wapiga picha 14 katika maonyesho ya Whitney, anaandika: ""Kufanya kazi pamoja: wapiga picha wa Kamouche Workshop.""" "Mwisho wa maonyesho hayo, Kamouche Workshop, kikundi cha wapiga picha weusi kilichoanzishwa mnamo 1963 katika New York City, Marekani, kilikuwa na ""mwisho wa harakati za haki za kiraia.""" Maonyesho hayo yatafanyika katika Whitney hadi Machi 28. Robinson alihamia New York kutoka Jamaika alipokuwa na umri wa miaka mitano. "Mfano wa picha za kwanza za Kamouche ni ""Black and White Street Scenes"" na ""Abstract Portraits"" na ""Black and White Street Scenes"" na ""Black and White Street Scenes"" na ""Black and White Street Scenes"" na ""Black and White Street Scenes"" na ""Black and White Street Scenes"" na ""Black and White Street Scenes"" na ""Black and White Street Scenes"" na ""Black and White"" na ""Black and White.""" "Kifaa changu ni kamera", anasema Robinson kwenye tovuti yake, "ni chombo ambacho huitikia na kubeba hisia zangu". Ameonyesha sana katika maonyesho, majumba ya makumbusho na taasisi kote Marekani. "Mchoro huo ulifunikwa katika maonyesho ya Tate Modern ""Soul of a Nation: Art in the Age of Black Power"" na ""The Art of the Black Power"" na ""The Art of the Black Power"" na ""The Art of the Black Power"" na ""The Art of the Black Power.""" Kamaunge katika Kikuyu inamaanisha <unk>kikundi cha watu wanaofanya kazi pamoja.<unk> Kikundi cha awali kilikutana kujadili na kukosoa kazi za kila mmoja, ambayo mara nyingi ilionyesha jinsi walivyoona na kuingiliana katika jamii zao. Jifunze zaidi kuhusu Robinson na kazi yake na Kamoigne hapa.