Flowers for Black Elders

Flowers for Black Elders is a multimedia oral history and financial reparations project by City of Portland artists-in-residence Onry and Joni Whitworth. Onry, one of the only Black male professional opera singers in the Pacific Northwest, honors five musical mentors who influenced and paved the way for his career. The project documents the stories of Black musicians in Northeast Portland from the 1990s to the present. I was brought on the shoot portraits for each musician.