Talk:Will Steacy

Unsourced group exhibitions moved from article
2011 2010 2009 2008 2007 2006
 * Metropolis - city life in the urban age, Noorderlicht Photofestival 2011, Groningen, The Netherlands
 * Ring Cube Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
 * Philadelphia Photo Arts Center, Philadelphia, USA
 * Michael Mazzeo Gallery, New York, USA
 * Museum of the City of New York, New York, USA
 * Haggerty Museum of Art, Milwaukee, USA
 * Ogden Museum Of Southern Art, New Orleans, USA
 * PhotoNOLA - Festival of Photography in New Orleans
 * HomeSpace Gallery, New Orleans, USA
 * Inaugural Exhibition, Christophe Guye Galerie, Zurich, Switzerland
 * Museum of Fine Arts, Tallahassee, USA
 * Hous Projects, New York, USA
 * The Illumination Fund, New York, USA
 * Whatever was Splendid: New American Photographs, FotoFest Biennial, Houston, USA
 * Photo Center NW, Seattle, USA
 * Ogden Museum Of Southern Art, New Orleans, USA
 * F/Stop International Photography Festival, Leipzig, Germany
 * New York Photo Festival, Brooklyn, USA
 * Griffin Museum of Photography, Boston, USA
 * Michael Mazzeo Gallery, New York, USA
 * Alexey Brodovitch Gallery, New York, USA
 * Galerie Art Mur, Montreal, Canada
 * Kathleen Cullen Fine Art, New York, USA
 * Lennox Contemporary, Toronto, Canada
 * Leica Gallery, New York, USA
 * Michael Mazzeo Gallery, New York, USA
 * Gulf and Western Gallery, New York University, USA
 * Rooke Gallery, Johannesburg, South Africa
 * Peer Gallery, New York, USA
 * African American Museum of Art, Philadelphia, USA
 * Odessa College, Odessa, Ukraine
 * Academy of Fine Arts, Warsaw, Poland
 * Contemporary Arts Center, Abilene, USA
 * Gulf and Western Gallery, New York University, USA
 * The Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati, USA
 * Chashama Gallery, New York, USA
 * Dougherty Arts Center, Austin, USA
 * Gail Gibson Gallery, Seattle, USA
 * Houston Center for Photography, USA
 * Nathan Cummings Foundation, New York, USA
 * The Center for Fine Art Photography, Fort Collins, USA
 * Hinterconti Gallerie, Hamburg, Germany
 * New Orleans Museum of Art, New Orleans, USA

Neutral point of view, removal of sensitive language from description of Between these Mean Streets
"Steacy's best known project, Down these Mean Streets (2012) is a socially conscious series of photographs depicting life in rough urban areas."

The description of this series as "socially conscious" is problematic for several reasons:
 * This language was copied straight from the Christophe Guye Galerie website. This "galerie" represented the artist at the time of this article's creation and wrote this article for promotional purposes.
 * Describing this series as "socially conscious" does not represent a neutral point of view. It could be argued that the series is not "socially conscious" at all and is instead exploitative and culturally appropriative. However, the language used to describe the series should not qualify the degree to which it is or is not socially conscious, especially if the only source that can corroborate this opinion is the artist's (former) gallery.

Describing this series as "depicting life in rough urban areas" not only fails to meet the conditions of a neutral viewpoint, it is also a dated and perhaps even racist way to describe a white photographer's relationship to various communities of color through photography. I think more current and nuanced language should be employed here.

I am posting these concerns here because I know there are some editors who have a strong interest in rescuing this page from illegitimacy and I want to give them a chance to adjust the language, in lieu of me simply removing it. 0mbramaifu (talk) 18:41, 7 September 2020 (UTC)