Al J Thompson
{{Short description|American photographer}}
Al J Thompson (born 1980) is a Jamaican-born American photographer, living in New York City.{{cite web|access-date=2021-06-17|title=Al J Thompson: Remnants of an Exodus|url=https://gupmagazine.com/books/al-j-thompson-remnants-of-an-exodus/|date=22 March 2021|website=GUP Magazine}}{{cite web|access-date=2021-06-17|title=Remnants of an Exodus • Q&A with Al J Thompson|url=https://www.vogue.it/fotografia/article/remnants-of-an-exodus-qanda-with-al-j-thompson|website=Vogue Italia|date=18 March 2021 }}
Life and work
Thompson was born on the island of Jamaica. In 1996, aged 16, he moved to Spring Valley in Rockland County, New York. He now lives in New York City.
His first book, Remnants of an Exodus (2021), was made in Spring Valley and is about gentrification.{{cite web|access-date=2021-06-17|title=A photographer bears witness to the gentrification of his childhood home|url=https://www.1854.photography/2021/03/a-photographer-bears-witness-to-the-gentrification-of-his-childhood-home/|website=www.1854.photography}}{{cite web|access-date=2021-06-17|title=The big picture: elegy for a lost New York community|url=http://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2021/may/23/the-big-picture-elegy-for-a-lost-new-york-community|date=23 May 2021|website=The Guardian}}{{cite web|access-date=2021-06-17|title=Visualizing Gentrification In 'Remnants Of An Exodus'|url=https://www.npr.org/sections/pictureshow/2021/03/21/977524208/visualizing-gentrification-in-remnants-of-an-exodus|website=NPR.org}}{{cite magazine|first1=Anakwa|last1=Dwamena|access-date=2021-06-17|title=A Photographer Chronicles Upheaval in His Suburban Home Town|url=https://www.newyorker.com/culture/photo-booth/photographer-chronicles-upheaval-in-his-suburban-home-town|magazine=The New Yorker|date=20 March 2019 }}
Publications
- Remnants of an Exodus. New York (state): Gnomic, 2021. With an essay by Shane Rocheleau, "Gathering Remnants".{{cite web|access-date=2021-06-17|title=A photographer's elegy to a divided New York community|url=https://www.huckmag.com/art-and-culture/a-photographers-elegy-to-a-divided-new-york-community/|date=25 May 2021|website=Huck Magazine}}
References
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External links
- {{Official website|www.aljthompson.com}}
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Category:21st-century American photographers
Category:Photographers from New York (state)
Category:Jamaican photographers
Category:Date of birth missing (living people)
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