About the Organizer
Lafotographeuse (Amanda Adams-Louis) is a Brooklyn based photographer, educator, curriculum/program designer, cultural producer, house music aficionado, club kid and street dance scholar. She earned her BFA in Photography from Pratt Institute and is a Studio Art alumna of the Whitney Museum Independent Study Program. Born in the U.S. and raised in Europe, Africa, and the Caribbean, Lafotographeuse’s oeuvre is informed by her experiences living, learning, and creating between multiple continents and cultures during her formative years. Her creative practice exists at the nexus of art, education, and archive.
Her bodies of work celebrate dance forms developed from movement vocabularies, music, and performance traditions defined by Black, LGBTQIA, and Latinx communities in New York City. Lafotographeuse collaborates with dance artists to create images, exhibitions, workshops, and panels that highlight Black pleasure, play, leisure, and joy in motion. Her imagery, research, and production work is dedicated to illuminating the legacies of indigenous NYC dance subcultures developed to the sounds of Disco, Funk, House, Hip-Hop, R&B, Philly Soul, and other musical genres from the African diaspora.
