Partner Event
Supporting the Creativity of Tomorrow
Wednesday, April 5
6:00 p.m. - 7:30 p.m. EST
456 West 18th Street, New York
Join Aperture, Google’s Creator Labs, and SN37 for a panel discussion surrounding the Creator Labs Photo Fund. Senior managing editor of Aperture magazine, Brendan Embser, and writer and editor, Nicole Acheampong, will be in conversation with artists Daveed Baptiste, Adraint Bereal, and Sydney Mieko King, who will share insight into their practice as recipients of the inaugural Creator Labs Photo Fund grant in 2021.
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Nicole Acheampong is a writer and editor based in Brooklyn. Her work has appeared in Art in America, the Atlantic, and the New York Review of Books, as well as Aperture magazine, where she was previously assistant editor.
Brendan Embser is senior managing editor of Aperture magazine. He is also editor of Aperture publications, including Deana Lawson: An Aperture Monograph (2018), Ethan James Green: Young New York (2019), Ming Smith: An Aperture Monograph (2020), and Philip Montgomery: American Mirror (2021). Brendan has served on the jury for the Addis Foto Fest, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia; Changjiang International Photography and Video Art Biennale, Chongqing, China; Sony World Photography Awards; and WMA Masters, Hong Kong. Formerly director of exhibitions at the Walther Collection, New York, he has contributed essays and interviews to Apartamento, Contemporary And, n+1, Objektiv, and The PhotoBook Review. He holds an MA in Africana studies from New York University, and a BA in English from Haverford College, Pennsylvania.
Daveed Baptiste is a multidisciplinary maker working in fashion design, photography, and textiles. His migration from Haiti to America inspires most of his work. As an immigrant and queer person, his work examines the multidimensional identities of the Caribbean diaspora living in the United States. Through collaborative projects and various mediums, his work aims to decolonize notions of race, gender, and class within the Haitian community and greater Caribbean Diaspora. He has recently finished a year-long apprenticeship program at Converse working as a color and material designer. His photographs have been published in the New Yorker, New York Times, and American Vogue, and have been exhibited at NYU and Aperture. Currently, Baptiste is doing a year-long residency at Silver Art Projects, located in the World Trade Center.
Adraint Bereal is an artist and director from Waco, Texas, who is based in Brooklyn. He received his BFA in design from the University of Texas at Austin. His debut self-published book, The Black Yearbook (2020), has been featured in publications such as the Atlantic, New York Times, Aperture, and VICE. Penguin Random House will publish The Black Yearbook in spring 2024, an expansion of his previous body of work, which illustrates the experiences of Black students across the United States. His work is motivated by his upbringing in the South, the rerooting of Black narratives, and themes of family.
Sydney Mieko King is an artist working primarily in photography. Her work explores the potential of the body and its trace as a site and source of formal invention, as a semipermeable membrane, and as a vessel for memory. King’s work has been shown at the International Center of Photography, Broodthaers Society, Dean Collection, and Chashama, New York; Huxley-Parlour Gallery, London; and others. She has been in-residence at BRIC, Recess Art, Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, and Yale Norfolk School of Art. King graduated magna cum laude from Princeton University with a degree in art and archaeology in 2017. She is currently an MFA candidate at the Yale School of Art.
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About The Creator Labs Photo Fund
Google’s Creator Labs Photo Fund was created out of a desire to extend the mission and message of Creator Labs to the wider creative community. It is increasingly important and vital to provide support to the creative community—to continue their practice, and have their narratives reverberate, for years to come.
About Creator Labs
Creator Labs supports artists in the production of important personal work. A partnership between Google & SN37, participating photographers and filmmakers are selected for their ability to author distinct, concentrated visual narratives with an authentic point of view. All work has been created using Google Pixel.
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Image: Image: Adraint Bereal, Untitled, 2020, from The Black Yearbook (2020)
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