Speakers
- Adreinne Waheed
- Waheed Photo Archive, Photographer/Photo Editor
Adreinne Waheed is a photographer and photo editor based in Brooklyn, NY and Berkeley, CA. She has been making images since age thirteen. In 2018, she released a self-published coffee table book, entitled Black Joy and Resistance, which is available now on Amazon. Her work has been published by The New York Times, National Geographic and The Fader to name a few. Waheed’s photography also appears in the inaugural issue of Mfon: A Journal of Women Photographers of the African Diaspora. She has exhibited at Rush Arts, Corridor Gallery, Underground Museum, and the Long Gallery, Harlem. As photo editor, Waheed has researched, produced and directed shoots for publications including Vibe, King and Essence. In 2010, she created the Waheed Photo Archive, a collection of found photographs of African-Americans from Civil War to the present. The Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History and Culture (NMAAHC) acquired the archive in 2015.