To see ArtRage’s new photo exhibition—take the Connective Corridor bus routes 443 or 543 to Almond St and E. Washington.

This ArtRage exhibition offers, for the first time, a showing of the complete Light Work group of Marjory Wilkins’ photos. The original 20 printed for the Light Work Gallery are joined by prints of the remaining images, which have just been printed in their restored form. This is an exhibit of 35 restored and finished prints of both the now extinct 15th Ward and others of historical relevance to both the African American community and the Syracuse community at large.

Wilkins’ photography has become an invaluable resource to remember a place now destroyed, and a community with a charm and importance almost unknown to those outside of it. The photographs portray a once vibrant neighborhood torn down to make room for I-81 to be built through the “heart” of Syracuse.

Wilkins’ early black & white photos also illustrate the premise that making photos was a wide-spread activity in the African American community. The photo­graphs evoke the presence of the African American photographer documenting a personal and social side of life not depicted in the media or counter-culture of the time.

For more information, visit artragegallery.org.