ROLAND L. FREEMAN – PORTFOLIO
2021-06-28Freeman draws inspiration from a life growing up in both rural Maryland and urban Baltimore. At an early age, he met author and folklorist Zora Neale Hurston, whose writings would later inform Freeman’s narrative style of visual storytelling. His passion for photographing the human condition was inspired by studying the photographs of Gordon Parks and other Depression-era Farm Security Administration photographers. A major influence on Freeman’s many long-term documentary projects was Roy DeCarava, who documented New York’s Harlem Renaissance of the late 1940s-1950s.
Opposite – Getting Acquainted, Sunday Afternoon in Druid Hill Park, Baltimore, MD, 1973
Exhibition runs through to September 5th, 2021
The Ogden Museum Of Southern Art
925 Camp Street
New Orleans
LA 70130
