Jamel Shabazz | Seconds of My Life: Photographs from 1975-2025
February 28th - April 20th, 2025
Bronx Documentary Center Annex
Installation View @ BDCA
364 East 151st Street The Bronx
Opening: Saturday, March 8 | 6-9 PM
(Via Bronx DCA) Born in Brooklyn, New York, Jamel Shabazz (@jamelshabazz) began taking photographs of his friends and family at fifteen years old. His earliest visual influences include photo albums which have been passed down and added to across generations of his family. Shabazz attended John Jay College of Criminal Justice before devoting himself full-time to photography. Inspired by the work of Gordon Parks, James Van Der Zee, and others, Shabazz sought to document life in New York City, in all its complexity. His work has been featured in several exhibitions at the Studio Museum in Harlem, including his 2017 solo presentation Jamel Shabazz: Crossing 125th. He has been included in solo and group exhibitions at the Central Library branch of the Brooklyn Public Library, the Bronx Museum of the Arts, El Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes in Havana, the Nasher Museum at Duke University, and the Victoria and Albert Museum in London. Shabazz maintains a commitment to social responsibility and for young people’s access to photography, and has served as a teaching artist for the Studio Museum’s Expanding the Walls program, Rush Philanthropic Arts Foundation, the Bronx Museum’s Teen Council youth program, the International Center of Photography, Friends of Island Academy, and the Mural Arts program in Germantown, Pennsylvania, among others.
