Professor Katherine Hubbard‘s work is included in a new collection of contemporary black-and-white photography titled Primal Sight. The book, curated by Efrem Zelony-Mindell, includes works by 146 artists and essays by David Campany and Gregory Eddi Jones.
Primal Sight encompasses the works of intergenerational, interdisciplinary, and intersectional artists, each questioning the perceived order of things. These interrogations center on issues of race, gender, philosophy, and praxis, subverting traditional notions of black-and-white imagery into something feral and queered, possessed of previously unimagined possibilities.
These works embody a mastery of what is strengthened or weakened by the light inside them. Beyond our individual differences, there exist universal commonalities in the ways humans try to make sense of the world; as our fluency with visual vocabulary changes, these images change accordingly.