Born Free, Born Equal by Joseph Maida
Maida revisits key civil liberties' determinations from the nation's founding through 2020 as well as Ansel Adams's empathetic images of wrongfully incarcerated Japanese Americans from the height of World War II to raise vital questions about democracy, justice, memory, and photography in the United States today.
PARIS PHOTO New York April 1-5, 2020
Convoke presents the debut of Maida’s photographic collages based upon his reworking of Ansel Adams’s 1944 book, Born Free and Equal.
Social Media x Social Justice Workshops
Interactive workshops that repurpose Ansel Adams’s famed 1944 Manzanar Project to speak to the 21st century via both the political poster and Instagram
Printed Media x Printed Justice:
Exhibition-in-a-Box
A set of twenty exhibition-ready posters, onto which Maida adhered pivotal US immigration, citizenship, and civil-liberties documents downloaded from the Internet onto spreads from his 2018 book, Born Free and Equal: The Story of Loyal _____-Americans.