Resounding with Echoes: Sojourns across Africa and America

A visual journey across mid—century Africa and AmericaThrough a dialogue between black—and—white and color photography, Richard Hay Jr. reveals the quiet poetry of everyday life in midcentury West Africa and America. Rather than focusing on narratives of poverty, conflict, or exoticism, Hay approaches his subjects with a distinctly artistic lens, lyrically combining shared human experiences with local and global material culture. At times contextually ambiguous, the photographs taken with a...