Installation from the exhibition "When Civilizations Heal" (Image by Rachel Fawn Alban, courtesy of the artist, Praise Shadows Art Gallery, and Project for Empty Space)
Installation from the exhibition "When Civilizations Heal" (Image by Rachel Fawn Alban, courtesy of the artist, Praise Shadows Art Gallery, and Project for Empty Space)
Installation from the exhibition "When Civilizations Heal" (Image by Rachel Fawn Alban, courtesy of the artist, Praise Shadows Art Gallery, and Project for Empty Space)
Installation from the exhibition "When Civilizations Heal" (Image by Rachel Fawn Alban, courtesy of the artist, Praise Shadows Art Gallery, and Project for Empty Space)
Installation from the exhibition "When Civilizations Heal" (Image by Rachel Fawn Alban, courtesy of the artist, Praise Shadows Art Gallery, and Project for Empty Space)
Installation from the exhibition "When Civilizations Heal" (Image by Carlos Hernandez, courtesy of the artist, Praise Shadows Art Gallery, and Project for Empty Space)
Image by Dan Watkins Photography, courtesy Praise Shadows Art Gallery
Image by Dan Watkins Photography, courtesy Praise Shadows Art Gallery
Image by Dan Watkins Photography, courtesy Praise Shadows Art Gallery
Helina Metaferia
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Bibliography:
Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Photographs, and Prints Division
• Lyon, R., “Desegregate Woodfield Road School, Malverne, NY,” 1960.
• Unknown photographer, “Human Dignity for Hospital Workers,” undated.
• Unknown photographer, “Lane Bryant Office Workers on Strike,” July 18, 1946.
• Unknown photographer, “Picket Line, Smiling,” April 23, 1947.
• Unknown photographer, “Picket Labor Union,” 1948.
• Unknown photographer, “Picketing Dept of Welfare,” August 1949.
• Unknown photographer, “Picketing Grant’s,” April 27, 1954.
• Unknown photographer, “The Better Press League Picketing the New York Amsterdam News,” 1944.
Exhibitions
Syntropy. 21 Nov.-20 Dec. 2025, Praise Shadows Art Galley, Brookline, MA.When Civilizations Heal. 6 May-17 Aug. 2025, Project for Empty Space, Newark, NJ.

