Memorable Proof

Jessica Lynne conducted an interview with photographer Letitia Huckaby, a Fort Worth, Texas–based artist and cofounder of Kinfolk House, a collaborative project space in Fort Worth. In 2023, Huckaby was commissioned by Johnica Rivers and Michelle Lanier of the Harriet Jacobs Project to create a photographic series that resulted in the exhibition Memorable Proof . This exhibition was installed in the historic Chowan County Courthouse in Edenton, North Carolina, where Harriet Jacobs was born. In the interview, Huckaby discusses her relationship to the medium of photography through her formal studies at the Art Institute of Boston (now the art school of Lesley University) and the University of North Texas. She also remarks upon her personal, spiritual, and aesthetic relationship to Black southern landscapes such as Greenwood, Mississippi, and Tulsa, Oklahoma, and the spiritual valences of her artistic practice.