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Photographer Jules T. Allen to Discuss Work at QCC on April 16

Professor will discuss his approach to taking pictures at Queensborough event.

Professor Jules T. Allen will discuss his approach to photography as an interpreter of the contemporary black experience during an April 16 event at Queensborough Community College.

Allen, who teaches art and design at Queensborough, will talk about the variety of subjects he has photographed, including boxing gyms, city sidewalks and marching bands.

He will also discuss the relationships between photography, teaching and publishing.

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“Teaching has allowed me to work through my own ideas of photography and learn from my wonderful students to challenge them and be progressive,” Allen said.

Allen was born in San Francisco and attended California State University, earning a bachelor’s degree in fine arts and a Master of Science in clinical counseling psychology. He later earned a Master of Fine Arts from Hunter College.

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He shaped his approach to photography while employed as a psychiatric social worker in San Francisco’s criminal justice system.

He later worked in the five boroughs as a commercial photographer for editorial, advertising and entertainment.

Allen’s work has been widely exhibited in the United States and abroad and his work is included in several permanent collections, such as the Museum of Modern Art, Studio Museum in Harlem, Brooklyn Museum, Smithsonian, National Gallery and the Schomburg Center for Culture and Research.

He has published for books in collaboration with Queensborough’s art gallery. To view Allen’s work, visit his website.

“Presidential Lecture: Jules T. Allen: Conjure, Light, Forward Momentum” will run from 4:30 p.m. to 6:30 p.m. on April 16 in Room M-136 in Queensborough’s Medical Arts Building.


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