On Sunday, October 9th, Gallery 90220, K Period Media Foundation and Lead With Love will co-host the special Opening Night event for the TILL: Impact of Images Main Exhibit at Gallery 90220 on The Beehive Campus from 6 PM - 9 PM. Opening Night of the TILL: Impact of Images Main Exhibit will bring together a diverse group of leaders in the community and culture for an inspiring evening in honor of Emmett Till and Mamie Till-Mobley, Black artists and storytellers and revolutionary love. Attendees will be the first to experience and explore the specially curated installations and images captured by trailblazing Black Photographers featured in the TILL: Impact of Images Main Exhibit. Opening Night will also include live music, a Black-Owned Business Marketplace, refreshments, food and more.

“What happens to any of us, anywhere in the world, had better be the business of us all." Mamie Till-Mobley. In Mamie Till-Mobley’s courageous fight for justice for her son Emmett Till after he was brutally lynched on August 28, 1955, she took action and organized to have Jet Magazine publish the photos of her 14 year old son captured by Black Photographer David Jackson in the Chicago funeral home on September 15, 1955. As depicted in Chinonye Chukwu’s feature film TILL, these images galvanized communities nationwide and transformed the moment into a catalyst for the Civil Rights Movement of the 1950s and 1960s. 

Rooted in revolutionary love, transformative justice, radical art, hope and healing, the ‘Impact of Images’ campaign looks to honor the power of images like those featured in Jet and the influence of Mamie’s leadership by uplifting influential Black Photographers across generations, supporting organizations fighting for justice and equality like the Emmett Till Foundation and Black Voters Matter and empowering Black-ownned businesses and spaces like Gallery 90220, Jet Magazine and McBride Sisters Wine Company. 

Organized by K Period Media Foundation and Lead With Love with support from Orion Pictures and United Artists Releasing, the ‘Impact of Images’ collection features moving work captured by Black Photographers Gordon Parks, Kwame Brathwaite, Ernest Withers, Devin Allen, Noémie Marguerite, Moneta Sleet Jr., Colby Deal, Reggie Cunningham, Delaney George, Stacy Revere and more. The collection also includes personal photos from the families of Emmett Till and Mamie Till-Mobley and Medgar and Myrlie Evers.

Emmett and Mamie may be gone but they will never be forgotten.

FEATURED PHOTOGRAPHERS

GORDON PARKS · KWAME BRATHWAITE · DEVIN ALLEN · BMIKE ODUMS · STACY REVERE · ERNEST WITHERS · NOEMIE MARGUERITE · REGGIE CUNNINGHAM · DELANY GEORGE · MONETA SLEET JR. and more