Press
Publications, programs, and resources created by Vision & Justice have been covered by major outlets globally. Below is a selection of highlights.
THE BOSTON GLOBE, September 25, 2024, “‘We can love all of the United States without lying about it,’ says Harvard professor Sarah Lewis”
HARVARD MAGAZINE, June 13, 2024, “Vision and Justice: How photographs promote social justice”
THE HARVARD GAZETTE, June 10, 2024, “This course changed how I see the world”
THE NEW YORK TIMES, April 4, 2024, “Welcoming Underexposed Black Photographers Into the Canon”
PHOTOGRAPH, July 1, 2023, “Isaac Julien’s Pictures and Progress”
THE BOSTON GLOBE, June 14, 2023, “The most-photographed person in 19th-century America knew the power of being seen”
THE HARVARD GAZETTE, June 13, 2023, “Frederick Douglass as a 19th-century influencer”
HARTFORD COURANT, May 30, 2023, “Frederick Douglass and the history of Black representation in photography honored in new Wadsworth exhibit”
FOX61, May 19, 2023, “New Wadsworth exhibit explores the power of images through the lens of Frederick Douglass”
NPR: WISDOM FROM THE TOP WITH GUY RAZ, September 14, 2022, “The Rise: Sarah Lewis”
THE BOSTON GLOBE, May 3, 2022, “Three Massachusetts scholars named 2022 Carnegie fellows”
DESIGNBOOM, May 5, 2021, “Highlights and insights from Frieze New York 2021 at the shed”
WHITEWALL, May 4, 2021, “A Tribute to Sarah Elizabeth Lewis’s Vision & Justice Project”
FINANCIAL TIMES, April 30, 2021, “The power of seeing”
ARTNET NEWS, February 27, 2021, “Art Historian Sarah Lewis on Why Black Artists Have Been ‘Over-Exhibited and Under-Theorized’”
FORBES, May 22, 2019, “Meet Sarah Lewis, The Harvard Professor Fighting For Justice Through The Power Of The Image”
THE WASHINGTON POST, May 3, 2019, “Her grandfather was expelled from school for asking why his textbooks had no black people. Today she teaches at Harvard”
HARVARD MAGAZINE, May 1, 2019, “The Work of Art”
WBUR, April 29, 2019, “At 'Vision And Justice,' A Deep Exploration Of Black Visual Cultures”
THE NEW YORK TIMES, April 25, 2019, Op-ed: “The Racial Bias Built Into Photography”
THE BOSTON GLOBE, April 24, 2019, “This is Sarah Lewis. You should know who she is”
THE HARVARD GAZETTE, April 15, 2019, “Picturing vision and justice”
THE HARVARD CRIMSON, May 11, 2018, “‘A Leader of Growing Stature in the Art World’: Sarah Lewis Makes Her Mark”
THE ATLANTIC, June 29, 2017, “The Power of Art That Makes You Pause”
HYPERALLERGIC, May 24, 2017, “Unpacking the Relationship Between Images and Social Justice”
THE NEW YORK TIMES, March 24, 2017, “Understanding Race and History Through Photography”
THE BOSTON GLOBE, January 5, 2017, “Putting a lens on race, photography, and citizenship”
THE NEW YORK TIMES, June 27, 2016, “Celebrating Black Culture With a Careful Eye”
THE HARVARD GAZETTE, June 2, 2016, “Curating a visual record”
WALL STREET JOURNAL, May 31, 2016, “Magazine Photos Give a New Sense Of African-American Lives”
THE LOS ANGELES TIMES, May 26, 2016, “We are bearing witness to a profound moment in black culture, Aperture shows”
TIME MAGAZINE, May 11, 2016, “Addressing the Representation of Black Culture in Photography”
THE NEW YORK TIMES, May 10, 2016, “Reclaiming the Photographic Narrative of African-Americans”