Candace Lewis

the photographs of Lewis & Manson

Please join Brown-Daniel Library in welcoming the work of Nashville photographers, DaShawn Lewis & Kimberly Manson, to the library’s ART CORNER. Highlighting the significance of everyday life and everyday people, Lewis & Manson documented real-life events, people and environments with portrait photography created this summer in partnership with:

• Robert Churchwell Museum Magnet Elementary School at Metro Nashville Public School’s “Back to School Bash” at Hadley-Lillard Park on August 2nd and
• the Bordeaux neighborhood’s Northwest YMCA on August 8th.

Their works—exhibited immediately afterward in Cheekwood Estate’s “Black Arts Bash Fine Art Exhibition” on August 16th—celebrate the beauty of faces from neighborhoods adjacent to TSU. The photos avail authentic visual biographies glimpsing into the lives, thoughts and emotions of everyday people captured in a specific nearby place & recent moment of time. The portraits are exhibited here at Brown-Daniel Library to foster connections that build community with TSU library patrons.

As Manson notes, “photography is connection... with people and the environment. When I photograph people, I want the subject to remember something about the moment the photo was taken. Maybe it sparks a memory of where they were, what was happening or how they felt. When the photo is displayed, I want the viewer to not only see what the person looked like but also see something about them.”