Artscape is Baltimore’s premiere arts and culture celebration, punctuating our city’s summers yearly. It is a captivating showcase of what the city’s creative communities are capable of.
I. Henry Phillips Sr. was known for his work preserving and extending the history of the African American community with his impressive catalog of photographs in the “I. Henry Photo Project,” The I. Henry Photo Project is a digital archive of images made by three generations of Webster men. The archive contains tens of thousands of scanned images and is still being updated.
Irving Henry Webster Phillips Jr., the Baltimore Sun’s first Black news photographer, was the son of the late I. Henry Phillips Sr., a newspaper photographer at the Baltimore Afro-American Newspaper. He started the I. Henry Photo Project Archive with his son I.H Webster III, a visual artist and archivist.
These photos show how photography can bring an event to life for an audience, not in attendance.
All photos courtesy of the I. Henry Photo Project.
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