My New Black Magazine - NYU Black Renaissance Noire BRN-FALL-206 ISSUE RELEASE | Page 174

BLACK RENAISSANCE NOIRE
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Jules Allen’s black marching band series
pays tribute to the dignity and lasting
legacy of black culture. It is a lens
focused on the role that artists play in
inspiring social change, in remembering
and reflecting on human struggle
and achievement. The photographs
challenge our assumptions about what
we see in a mutating landscape. This
series reveals to us the powerful ways
in which black marching bands offer us
all a critical opportunity to invest new
information and imagine new potential.
The bands build community solidarity,
identity and yearning as revelation, as
investment, and as construction.