For Freedoms

For Freedoms is an artist-led organization that models and increases creative civic engagement, discourse, and direct action.

[SILKROAD @silkroadproject]

In partnership with @forfreedoms, Silkroad is launching four compelling billboards in Los Angeles that tell the story—from a visual perspective—of the fraught legacy of American Imperialism and the quiet histories of those who toiled to build this country.

[For Freedoms @forfreedoms]

Today is #ElectionDay 🗳️

Ride, walk, drive, or march to VOTE ☀️

Find your voting location at https://t.co/QIQ48jLx6x

Billboard by @derrickadamsny “Ode to Bayard Rustin”

[Mellon Foundation @MellonFdn]

For Freedoms (@forfreedoms) is an anti-partisan, unifying force combining art and politics to encourage civic engagement among the creatively-inclined.

#NationalArtsAndHumanitiesMonth https://t.co/rqZ5HtJfZT

[For Freedoms @forfreedoms]

Share your favorite banned books with us 👇 #BannedBooksWeek

[For Freedoms @forfreedoms]

FREEDOM IS NOT GUARANTEED 📚

The freedom to read is essential to our democracy.
It is continuously under attack.

Marking the start of #BannedBooksWeek, artist @xavierasimmons' billboard "Freedom is Not Guaranteed" was installed on the exterior of DC's MLK Library.

[For Freedoms @forfreedoms]

On #YomKippur, the Jewish Day of Atonement, we reflect on the need for peace and reconciliation for all.

Billboard by @wyattgallery installed in Boston, MA for The Highest Form of Wisdom is Kindness, a For Freedoms campaign aimed at combating antisemitism.

[For Freedoms @forfreedoms]

How a multi-faith, multiracial team of artists is waging a nationwide billboard campaign to fight antisemitism (via @jdforward) https://t.co/4fBuJ0HiMU

[For Freedoms @forfreedoms]

NO TOPIC IS MORE URGENT TODAY THAN DEMOCRACY

Today on #DemocracyDay and #VoterRegistrationDay, we spotlight For Freedoms artist @jennyholzer's light projections titled, "THE PEOPLE," displayed on the facade of the @hirshhorn museum from dusk to 11 pm through September 21.

[For Freedoms @forfreedoms]

Join us starting today for the inaugural edition of @Photo_Fairs New York, where we'll be featuring artwork by For Freedoms Fellows McKayla Chandler, Emanuel Hahn, Eric Hart Jr., Maya June Mansour, and Da'Shaunae Marisa: https://t.co/Tv5A7bhKib

[National Geographic @NatGeo]

After the U.S. seized their lands more than 150 years ago, the Diné (Navajo) people embarked on the Long Walk—a 300-mile trek to exile. Photographer Dakota Mace shares their stories
https://t.co/y48Z9OvLwI

[National Geographic @NatGeo]

After decades as a photojournalist in the Middle East, Tanya Habjouqa turns her lens to the place of her youth, where she says, “If you weren’t part of the privileged few, you were forgotten.”
https://t.co/O5hRlJ7KXs

[For Freedoms @forfreedoms]

Taking its name from the Talmud, our next billboard campaign "The Highest Form of Wisdom is Kindness," invites artists @hankwthomas @Zoebuckman @WEEMSCarrie @deborahkass & more to create billboards that aspire towards a world free of antisemitism. https://t.co/oWuGG9CeE5

[For Freedoms @forfreedoms]

"There is something about both of us that goes deeper than blood or Black and white. It is our common search for a better life, a better world. I march now over the same ground you once marched. I fight for the same things you fight for."—Gordon Parks, 1968

[For Freedoms @forfreedoms]

Today marks the 60th anniversary of the #MarchonWashington where Martin Luther King Jr. gave his "I Have a Dream" speech, bringing attention to jobs, voting rights, and police brutality.

"I am You" installed in Madison, WI in collaboration with the #GordonParks Foundation, 2018

[National Geographic @NatGeo]

In a land shaped by colonialism, photographer Christopher Gregory Rivera hopes to foster a “better understanding of where we are and who we are—and where we could possibly go.”
https://t.co/3YtRz0SmoT

[For Freedoms @forfreedoms]

As many as 20,000 Chinese workers were recruited to build North America’s railways. Their descendants are still fighting for recognition, says Philip Cheung in the August issue of @natgeo: https://t.co/mNyFzpmhlU

[Aesthetica Magazine @AestheticaMag]

Visual listening is a concept that asks participants to connect deeply with the body.

@forfreedoms work with @FotografiskaNY to harness this idea, creating a group exhibition based on feeling and performance. Until October 22: https://t.co/U5isJWhwf7

Image: Eric Gottesman

[New York Times Opinion @nytopinion]

“I’m going to love people so passionately — until a part of me will always live outside of the gates of Angola.”

A new Opinion video shares prisoners’ stories and asks the question: How much punishment is enough? https://t.co/VvCFjEHvq1

[National Geographic @NatGeo]

Using a special technique, this photographer makes luminous images of Mexico’s comunidades originárias
https://t.co/N3MQxRJPvc

[Victorio Milian at Creative Chaos Photography @chaosphotos]

Love is the message.

Nikon F2 and Kodak Gold 200. #ChaosPhotos