"Dawoud Bey: Elegy"

Dawoud Bey: Elegy on display at NOMA showcases the work of acclaimed photographer Dawoud Bey, delving into memories and histories of the early African American experience through landscape visualizations—both real and imagined. The exhibition includes forty-five black-and-white photographs and two film installations, probing the powerful historical past at sites in Louisiana, Virginia, and Ohio. Bey weaves together three bodies of work: Night Coming Tenderly, Black (2017), In This Here Place (2019), Stony the Road (2023), shaping the experiences of perseverance and struggle wrapped up in the African American historical identity. noma.org.