“Being a black woman photographer was like being nobody, it was just my camera and me. I worked to capture black culture, the richness, the love. That was my incentive. It wasn’t like I was going to make money from it, or fame - not even love, because there were no shows.”
In Conversation: Ming Smith & Hans Ulrich Obrist, Director of the Serpentine Galleries, at Pippy Houldsworth Gallery, 2022
Ming Smith in conversation with Greg Tate at The Whitney Museum, 2022
Ming Smith in Conversation with Hans Ulrich Obrist, Director of the Serpentine Galleries, Paris Photo, 2020
Press — Timeline
When the white establishment ignored these black photographers, the Kamoinge Collective was born.
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Press — Document Journal
Ming Smith’s otherworldly photographs of very earthly injustices.
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Press — Aperture
These Radical Black Women Changed the Art World.
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Press — Dazed
Meeting the first black woman to have work in MoMA’s permanent collection
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Press — Hyperallergic
An Annual Compendium of Black Photography that Was a Revolutionary Act.
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Press — ArtNews
Interogate the world as it is and imagine how it could be: Four trailblazing artists in ‘Soul of a Nation’ discuss the show and their careers.
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Press – The Financial Times
Ming Smith: ‘Being a black woman photographer was like being nobody’
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Press — Cultured Mag
Photographer Ming Smith reflects on the milestones that started her career.
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