photography

For over 30 years Bread & Roses Community Fund has been supporting movements for racial and economic justice by providing grants, technical assistance and leadership development to local, community-based organizations working for social change. Our philosophy is change, not charity because we believe that changing public policy and public opinion to address the fundamental problems that cause inequity makes the need for charity obsolete. This year, for our annual Tribute to Change event, we are curating a collection of photographs that document communities coming together to build power and self-determination, empowerment, and working for social change. These photos will be exhibited alongside the work of renowned documentary photographer Harvey Finkle who has produced a substantial body of work concerned with social, political and cultural issues.

"Philadelphia has been instrumental in creating more of an activist gaze for me and also grounding me as an artist...  We are supposed to feel isolated and fragmented from one another based on difference, based on class. I mean, that' why, Martin Luther King' Poor People' Movement was so important, something to study and look at."