The Print Center

Conversation with Gerald Cyrus and Gioncarlo Valentine

Thu, Nov 5, 6:00 PM

Presented both in-person and on Zoom Join us in-person or on Zoom to celebrate Gerald Cyrus’ new book Uptown Odyssey . Uptown Odyssey gathers Cyrus’s black-and-white photographs of Harlem made across the 1990s—a decade-long portrait of a neighborhood at the height of its cultural life. Cyrus will be in conversation with Gioncarlo Valentine , who wrote the introduction for the book. The book will be available for purchase and signing. Uptown Odyssey is h ardcover with printed edges, 146 pages with 72 plates, published by TBW Books. Register for Zoom Registration not required for in-person attendance For more than forty years, Cyrus has documented Afrodescendant communities across the United States, Brazil, Cuba and Africa. Working primarily in black-and-white film, but also recently in color, he makes documentary work and portraiture, revealing both the beauty of everyday life and the enduring legacies of Africa. His gelatin silver prints are tonally expressive, and capture intimate, humanistic images that resist archetypes and highlight the richness of lived experience