Jeanne Moutoussamy-Ashe | Daufuskie Island Series, South Carolina, 1970s

Daufuskie Island, South Carolina, 1978-1980

Photographs by Jeanne Moutoussamy-Ashe

Jeanne Moutoussamy-Ashe, Lenesian family, 1977 From the South Africa collection

Arthur Ashe and his wife Jeanne Moutoussamy-Ashe. Sport. Tennis. USA. Fashion.

Arthur Ashe, athlete and activist

Arthur Ashe, athlete and activist

With its white roof silhouetted by the New York City skyline, for 25 years Arthur Ashe stadium, a cathedral of tennis and home of the U.S. Open, has hosted some of the game’s greatest moments, while honoring one of America’s greatest athletes, Arthur Ashe “Any name could have been put on this stadium, but they used a name who was about inclusion,” said Jeanne Moutoussamy-Ashe, Arthur’s wife. She…

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Shrimper & Son, c.1978 by Jeanne Moutoussamy-Ashe The father and son are photographed on Daufuskie Island, located off the coast of South Carolina and are of Gullah Geechee heritage.

Jeanne Moutoussamy-Ashe. Black Man, White Woman, Johannesburg, South Africa. 1977.

Jeanne Moutoussamy-Ashe made multiple visits to Daufuskie Island, situated just off the coast of South Carolina, to photograph the Gullah people. The Gullah are direct descendants of enslaved Africans who were forced to work on plantations there from the 1700s on. After emancipation, many of the Gullah purchased the lands on which they were formerly enslaved. Their relative isolation allowed them to preserve their unique blend of African and Creole culture and language over generations. Moutoussamy-Ashe’s loving photographs document life on Daufuskie before a wave of development on the island in the 1980s. "Church Members Gather Before Service," 1979 (negative); 2017 (print), by Jeanne Moutoussamy-Ashe © Jeanne Moutoussamy-Ashe  

Airport, Guayaquil, Ecuador, Photo by Jeanne Moutoussamy-Ashe, 1978

Jeanne Moutoussamy-Ashe | South Carolina, Untitled, 1970s

Jeanne Moutoussamy-Ashe

Train Station, Soweto, South Africa

1977, printed 2001

International Women’s Day at Making Histories Visible

Friday 8 March 2019

Noon - 4pm

Room 005, Victoria Building, UCLan 

Preston PR1 7DE

To celebrate International Women’s Day we are opening the archive from noon - 4pm. Everyone is welcome and it’s free!

See work by artists Sonia Boyce, Ingrid Pollard, Maud Sulter, Claudette Johnson and Jeanne Moutousamy Ashe, and see our many books including  Alice Walker, Toni Cade Bambara and Toni Morrison.

We are also launching Lubaina Himid’s new book Workshop Manual. You will have the chance to buy a copy and get it signed by the artist.

http://makinghistoriesvisible.com

Arthur Ashe and his wife Jeanne Moutoussamy-Ashe. Sport. Tennis. USA.

Daufuskie Island, South Carolina. Photographs by Jeanne Moutoussamy-Ashe (1977-1981)

Jeanne Moutoussamy-Ashe, selection from Daufuskie Island, 1980