TFI New Media Fund 2012
Question Bridge is an innovative transmedia art project that creates a platform to represent and redefine black male identity in America.
CO-DIRECTOR
Chris Johnson is an artist, educator, author and originator of Question Bridge: Black Males featured in the 2012 Sundance Film Festival. He is currently a Professor of Photography at the California College of the Arts.
CO-DIRECTOR
Hank Willis Thomas is a photo conceptual artist working primarily with themes related to identity, history and popular culture. He received a BFA in Photography and Africana studies from New York University and his MFA/MA in Photography and Visual Criticism from the California College of Arts. Thomas’ monograph, Pitch Blackness, was published by Aperture in 2008. His work is in numerous public collections including The Museum of Modern Art New York, The Guggenheim Museum, The Whitney Museum of American Art, The Brooklyn Museum, The High Museum of Art and the Museum of Fine Arts Houston. Recent notable exhibitions include Hank Willis Thomas at the Cleveland Museum of Art, Strange Fruit at the Corcoran Gallery of Art, Picture Windows: Hank Willis Thomas in collaboration with Sanford Biggers at the International Center for Photography, and the Istanbul Biennial. His 2014 The Power of Words interactive project is titled Truth Booth.