EVENT LINK: https://tinyurl.com/uzuri-beauty
June 20th, 9pm-10:30pm EST, Virtual, $12

Critically acclaimed veteran photographer Ricardo Scipio will be showing photos from his project Uzuri for the first time in 30 years. Uzuri means beauty, and was his first ever art photography project. From 1990 to 1993 Scipio created this pioneering work photographing portraits and nudes of Black women in colour in natural landscapes. (NSFW) Accompanying the showing of 100 photographs from the project will be a question-and answer session with the artist. 

Born in Trinidad, raised in Toronto, Scipio attended The Nova Scotia College of Art and Design where he was a studio major. He then began his love affair with cameras during a ten-year stint as an international fashion photographer. Disenchanted by the industry’s standard of ‘beauty’, which he considered hostile to women of colour and women with realistic-sized bodies, Scipio quit, and inspired by the beautiful Black people he had been surrounded by his whole life, started his art career with this celebration of natural black beauty.

Ricardo Scipio has made three independent fictional feature films as a writer and director, and eight more books of photography in the following years and is currently working on his tenth book.