Kathryn Pannepacker and Tieshka Smith | Northeast Times
We chat with Tieshka K. Smith about how community engagement informs her practice as a social documentarian. We also focus on photography she made as part of the Stand With Ukraine Listening Loom (SWULL) project, which created a welcoming space for Ukrainians resettling in a northeast Philadelphia neighborhood in the aftermath of the Russian-Ukrainian war in 2022.
—Visual Art Editor, April Sunami
Tieshka K. Smith
Tieshka K. Smith (she/her) is a Philadelphia-based photographer, writer, curator, cultural content creator and arts consultant. She uses as many tools at her disposal to challenge and disrupt the status quo. Her community-based artistic practice interrogates racism and classism in place making and civic identity formation; how neighborhood-level memories and values are shaped; and the ways in which the marginalization of people and ideas adversely affects American life and culture. Her photographs have been featured online, in print, and in galleries, museums and other community spaces here on the East Coast and in the Midwest, and are in a number of noteworthy private and public collections.
