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Jamel Shabazz was born in 1960 in Brooklyn, New York. He picked up his first camera at 15 and has been actively documenting urban life for more than thirty years. Shabazz’s photographs in Back in the Days (2001) celebrate the style and social life of early hip-hop culture of the 1980s and provide an invaluable document of that time. He has also published The Last Sunday in June (2003) and A Time Before Crack (2005).

Shabazz is a twenty-year veteran of the N.Y. City Department of Corrections who dedicates much of his time to mentoring youth and exposing them to the arts through the Rush Arts Philanthropic Foundations and the Studio Museum of Harlem’s Expanding the Walls program. He is currently working on a documentary with Charles Ahearn the director of the classic hip-hop film Wild Style.

KODAK LECTURE SERIES
FREE - 7:30 pm, Friday, March 30, 2007

Ryerson University Centre for Computing and Engineering, Lecture Theatre 103. 245 Church Street (just north of Dundas St. East at Gould St.) FREE. Arrive early for guaranteed seating. Lectures are webcast live as well as archived at www.ryersonlectures.ca

PHOTOGRAPHY WORKSHOP FOR YOUTH
FREE - 12-2 pm, Saturday, March 31, 2007

Prior to the opening, Shabazz will be leading a Photography Workshop for Youth from noon-2pm organized by The Remix Project, Earwaks.com and Manifesto. To participate in the workshop contact che@earwaks.com or getatremix@gmail.com

PHOTO EXHIBITION
FREE - 2-5 pm, Saturday, March 31, 2007

An exhibition of Jamel Shabazz’s recent photographic work will open at Thrush Holmes Empire, 1093 Queen St. West. Show runs till April 22.
www.thrushholmesempire.com