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  "Poor People's Campaign" Portfolio by Najee Dorsey
  10 Prints all 40 inches (W) photomontage & digital pigment print on premium Hahnemuhle archival paper, limited edition of 10 --unframed
  (L TO R images across)
  4. Southern Futurist
  5. Those Empower...Say, Oh Poor Dog
  6. Playground For the Poor
  8. Tent City
  9. The Gospel Spoke of A Redeemer
  10. Conjure Making That Long Arduous Access to Something Universal
  Black Visual Culture, Environmental injustice and Representation of American South in Afrofuturism
  Poor People's Campaign: Where does inspiration come from? Well inspiration came recently after being invited to a salon talk with the Founder of the Southerly thanks to Alan Rothschild of the Do Good Fund. The Southerly is an independent non-profit media organization that covers the intersection of ecology, justice, and culture in the American South. The invitation lead me down a rabbit hole of research prior to the talk, binging on information from environmental justice, climate change and social justice via Dr. Robert Bullard and Van Jones to Afrofuturism and Octavia Butler. Yes, as a lifetime Southerner, with Southern Visual Culture and Folklore being a focal point of my works I wanted to see if Afrofuturism takes into account poor and marginalized communities in the South. I now join in the conversation visually. I'm 10 plus pieces into this series and will continue to expand this body of work. Stay tuned, more to come ...