05/30/2024
The Chicago Alliance of African American Photographers (CAAAP) presents:
The Journey: Reflections On the First Twenty-Five Years
This exhibition is titled The Journey: Reflections on the First Twenty-Five Years. It is a sequel to the Journey: The Next Hundred Years. Twenty-five years ago, The Chicago Alliance of African American Photographers (CAAAP) launched a project to document the lives of African Americans at the turn of the century. Their first exhibition of this project displayed photographs encompassing all aspects of the daily life of the Chicago area African American communities, including the arts, new generation, religious life, and family, as well as social issues such as unemployment and homelessness.
Founded in March 1999, CAAAP was established by seven photographers to encourage photography featuring the African American community. The Journey is an ongoing documentary project of the Chicago Alliance of African American Photographers.
The mission of the Chicago Alliance of African-American Photographers is to photographically document the culture and history of the African-American/African communities in both the Greater Chicago area and throughout the world.
