Now On View: Invisible to Whom? Selections from the Robert A. Sengstacke Archive

Celebrating Robert A. "Bobby" Sengstacke’s decades-long work documenting Chicago’s Black community, it highlights his deep compassion and commitment to authentic storytelling. Through his lens, we witness Black people seeing and affirming one another, reclaiming their narratives beyond the white gaze and reimagining visibility in a racially stratified world.

Curated by the BMRC's Black Visual Arts Researcher, Rashieda Witter. This exhibition is made possible through the generous support of the Black Metropolis Research Consortium, Myiti Sengstacke-Rice, Chicago Defender Charities, UChicago’s Visual Resources Center and the Hanna Holborn Gray Special Collections Research Center, the Terra Foundation for American Art and the Gaylord and Dorothy Donnelley Foundation.

You can also experience the web exhibit here