Transforming Health Visual Culture - Incite at Columbia University

Incubated Project

Transforming Health Visual Culture

  • Funding Program Left Field Fund
  • Timeframe 2024–2025
  • Project Lead Fatima Seck
  • Award $5,000

The experiences of Black and brown women are often underrepresented within the healthcare field and health visual culture.  

In response, Fatima Seck will engage directly with Black and brown women from across Boston’s most diverse neighborhoods to photograph and archive their experiences during maternity. Seck will then utilize these images to transform an array of spaces that serve pregnant people and small children.

With the support of the Left Field Fund, Seck will work to enact and expand this initiative by offering maternity and newborn photography to Black and brown women. Additionally, Seck will provide free, framed photographs to reproductive and maternal health spaces across Massachusetts to diversify imagery in birth culture. 

In doing so, this project aims to grow the archive of loving Black and brown maternal imagery in both the domestic & public sphere. Moreover, Seck strives to create diversity in health visual culture. 
 

About the Team

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    Fatima Seck fseck3@gmail.com

    Fatima Seck is an artist and writer working in the intersection of food, health and art; and exploring Black women and children’s history through community engaged, arts-based research projects. Her work has been supported by various organizations including GrowBoston, City of Cambridge, New England Foundation for the Arts, Un-Monument Re-Monument De-Monument, Wellesley College’s Anti-Carceral Co-Laboratory, and Mount Auburn Cemetery. She has been a teaching artist at the ICA Boston and a visiting artist at Harvard Art Museums.

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