Dionne Lee: Currents

Dionne Lee’s first monograph is a powerful meditation on the tension between the landscape as sanctuary and site of violence for African Americans.

Dionne Lee’s work across photography, video, and collage spans themes of dispossession, loss, survival, and resilience. Lee’s formal interventions and innovative darkroom techniques—including rephotographing found imagery from wilderness survival manuals and using graphite pencils to create inscriptions on her photographs of the landscape—create new narratives that reclaim the great outdoors. Covering a decade of her work from 2016 to the present, Dionne Lee: Currents features contributions by curator Eric Booker and award-winning poet Camille T. Dungy, offering a timely reckoning with land, memory, and identity. It stands as an essential statement on the medium’s potential today.