Visual artist and archivist Renata Cherlise founded blackarchivesco in 2015 to honor the Black past by making it accessible. Her first book project does just that. naomi_elias spoke to her about the book and its visual language
Black ArchivesOur lives are often measured by the things we keep. Renata Cherlise, visual artist and founder of the popular multimedia platform, refers to herself as “a keeper of stories.” “I’m the person within my family that is this designated gatherer of stories,” she tells me. “I collect them, hold on to them, and preserve them.
“I just felt compelled to create and curate a body of work that really speaks to honoring the family photo album, honoring my entry point to archives and honoring this intimate space where we can engage and be a part of these photographs without noise.”Polaroid of the author’s parents during a night out, 1985.
“Snapshots don’t really require much in the technical sense. You can just point and shoot. Some of my favorite photographs are snapshots, and I lean towards snapshots because of that authenticity. Back in the day, there was this innocence, right? There was not this knowing that these images would be taken in by an audience so there is this authenticity that I think snapshots reveal.”Harlem, NY, 1980s. From the “Style” section of“Black folks, we are just fly, we have style.
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