Baltimore Lives - A Discussion with Photographer John Mayden

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Please register below and then tune into this livestream lecture here on Tuesday, August 11 at 12 PM EDT.

Award winning photographer John Clark Mayden has been documenting life in Baltimore’s African American neighborhoods since the 1970s. His photographs capture the ordinary joys and sorrows, quiet moments, and daily realities of life: kids on their bikes and roller skates, old timers catching a breeze on their front stoops, busy people striding through the snow. Join the Sheridan Libraries for a discussion between Mr. Mayden and Bloomberg Distinguished Professor Lawrence Jackson about Mr. Mayden’s photos and what they say about the beauty and heartbreak of everyday life, Black life, in this American city.

The event highlights the John Clark Mayden Collection, a gift to Johns Hopkins University through the Africana Archives Initiative, a partnership between the Billie Holiday Project for Liberation Arts and the Sheridan Libraries. We thank the Mayden family for this significant and transformative donation.

Baltimore Lives can be purchased from the Johns Hopkins University Press at https://jhupbooks.press.jhu.edu/title/baltimore-lives

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Watch and read other interviews with John Clark Mayden:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ymh6VaTRmWI&t=85s

https://hopkinsreview.jhu.edu/current-issue/interview-with-john-clark-mayden/