Highlights

Published Photography (Media Publications)

• 2024 International Documentary Association “BlackStar 2024: Bending Space-Time”
• 2024  Vanity Fair: “The BlackStar Film Festival Has a Mission, and Plenty of Ambition”
• 2024  Essence “The Best Street Style At BlackStar Film Festival”
• 2024  The Philadelphia Inquirer: “Philly’s buzziest film fest | Things to Do”
• 2024  WHYY: “BlackStar Film Festival, The Doobie Brothers, The Homey Awards, Rittenhopalooza and more in this week’s ‘Things To Do’”
• 2024 – Cultured Magazine: “Meet VIA Art Fund, the Non-profit Willing To Take Just As Many Risks As Its Artists”
• 2024 – Widewalls: “Innovative Non-Profit BlackStar Projects Receives $1M Mellon Foundation Grant”
• 2024 – MONTCO.Today: “Reassess & Make Changes: Improve Your Business, Football Team, LinkedIn”
• 2024 – Trippin World: BlackStar Film Festival
• 2024 – thINKingDANCE: “Animal and Gender Fluidity in Headlong’s ‘Horse Woman’ at the Barnes”
• 2023 – WHYY: “BlackStar Film Festival, Fall Out Boy, and 2nd Street Festival in this week’s Things To Do”
• 2023 – The Philadelphia Citizen: “The Citizen Recommends: BlackStar Film Festival 2023”
• 2023 – The Philadelphia Inquirer: “Philly’s biggest film fest is this weekend | Things to Do”
• 2023 – Philadelphia Style Magazine: “12 Things To Do in Philly This Summer”
• 2023 – Sculpture Magazine: “William Edmondson and Brendan Fernandes”
• 2023 – Whitewall: “The Barnes Foundation Celebrates the Vision of William Edmondson, Including a Commission by Brendan Fernandes”
• 2023 – Vogue.com: “At the Barnes Foundation, a Spiritual Convergence of Stone Sculpture and Dance”
• 2023 – Broad Street Review: “STILL A FASCINATING FIGURE The Barnes Foundation presents William Edmondson: A Monumental Vision”
• 2023 – Philadelphia Gay News: “‘Queer artist transforms the Barnes Foundation into a ‘spiritual ground’
• 2023 – artdaily.com: “Blending Dance and Sculpture Creates a Fresh View of Art”
• 2023 – The New York Times: “Blending Dance and Sculpture Creates a Fresh View of Art”
• 2023 – Black Enterprise: “Blackstar Projects Is Building a Legacy In Philadelphia And Film”
• 2023 – Metro Philly: “Terence Nance brings immersive art to Swarm exhibition”
• 2023 – Impacto: “Building digital skills for your future”
• 2023 – Audacy / KYW Newsradio: “Composer, musicologist amplifies Germantown’s place on the music map”
• 2022 – WHYY: “‘Don’t you see ’em?’ The ghosts of Rittenhouse Square come alive at the Barnes”
• 2022 – International Documentary Association: “A Kind of Time Travel: BlackStar Film Festival at 10”
• 2022 – Axios Philadelphia: “7 biggest events in Philadelphia in 2022”
• 2022 – Philadelphia Magazine: “Inside “The Promise”: Moving 100,000 People out of Poverty by 2025”
• 2022 – The Philadelphia Tribune: “Report details group’s efforts to combat poverty in Philly”
• 2022 – Al Dia: “With submissions open for the 2022 BlackStar Film Festival, BlackStar expands its staff”
• 2022 – Golden Globe Awards: “BlackStar Film Festival seeks to Open Doors”
• 2022 – IndieWire: “As It Turns 10, the BlackStar Film Festival Continues to Be More Than Just ‘the Black Sundance’”
• 2022 – The Philadelphia Tribune: “Black voices from around the world set to shine at BlackStar Film Festival”
• 2021 – The Guardian: “Eyimofe wins Best Feature Narrative at BlackStar Film Festival”
• 2021 – VICE: “Little Steps Lead to Big Business”
• 2020 – rollingout:  “Meet BlackStar Film Festival CEO Maori Karmael Holmes”
• 2020 – Sisters from AARP: “Bookmark These Black Film Festivals for a Reel Good Time This Summer”
• 2019 – KYW Newsradio: “BlackStar Film Festival draws big names to Philadelphia”
• 2018 – Liquor.com: “How Cheyenne Haggard Celebrated Winning The Naked Grouse Competition”
• 2015 – The Philadelphia Inquirer: “The New Voices of Philly Jazz” / Philly.com,  “Fresh Jazz from a New Generation of Philly Chantenuses”
• 2015 – The Philadelphia Inquirer:  “Hezekiah Davis III: Soul of indie Philly Hip-Hop”

Published Photography (Books)

• Scarborough, Klare, and Berrisford Boothe, editors. Shifting Time: African American Artists 2020-2021. Petrucci Family Foundation, 2022.

Web Series

• 2021 – Black Canvas – Philadelphia: Mz Icar | BET | (Director & Editor)
• 2020 – Share My Ride | iOne Digital / A Space For Creators | (Director & Editor)

Film Festivals

• 2015 – BlackStar Film Festival | Dreams Don’t Chase Themselves, United States Premiere | (Co-director & Co-editor – credited as Embassy)
• 2015 – 2nd Annual Webseries Festival | Dreams Don’t Chase Themselves | (Co-director & Co-editor – credited as Embassy)

Art Exhibitions and Projects

• 2024 – Pepon Osorio: Convalescence | Thomas Jefferson University Center City Campus (Photography)
• 2024 – The Thread (Photography)
• 2023-2024 – Philadelphia Doll Museum Forward (Photography and Videography)
• 2023-2024 – Declaration House | Monument Lab (Photography)
• 2022 – RE: Generation | Monument Lab (Video production)
• 2022 – Train-Hopping: analogue coversations, digital times: Delbert Richardson | Seattle Channel (Video production)
• 2021 – 2031 – 100 People Listening: A Shared Decade | Philadelphia Contemporary (Videographer & Participant)
• Fall 2021 – Fall 2024 – ARCH: Art Remediating Campus Histories Project | Monument Lab (Photography & Videography)
• 2021 – Anna Russell Jones: “The Art of Design” | African American Museum of Philadelphia (Photography – Virtual Exhibition & Videography)
• 2021 – Staying Power | Monument Lab & The Village of Arts and Humanitites (Videography)
• 2020 – Rendering Justice | African American Museum of Philadelphia (Photography – Virtual Exhibition)

Group Exhibitions

• 2021-22 – BlackStar Projects, Philadelphia Terminal A-East
• 2019 – Amplifying Civic Power in North Philadelphia | The Philadelphia Foundation, Philadelphia PA | Curator, SPACES: Artist in Residence Program at The Village of Arts & Humanities
• 2016 – OFF WHITE | MoCADA Museum, Brooklyn NYC | Curator, Akintola Hanif

Photo Exhibitions (Solo)

• 2024 – Black Joy in Philadelphia | Penn State Brandywine

Residencies

• 2017-18 – SPACES – Artist in Residence | Village of Arts and Humanities Project: “Home Court”

Press & Social Campaigns

• 2024 “Meet Daniel Jackson” | CanvasRebel Magazine
• 2024 “Meet Daniel Jackson” | Bold Journey Magazine
• 2023  “How a mixtape DJ found success by spotlighting others” | Dropbox
• 2021 One Year, One File | Dropbox
• 2021 “Forced FOMO” | MostlyMax…and other things
• 2021 “Little Steps Lead to Big Business” | Vice
• 2021 Minters Week | Intuit
• 2020 Artist Career Success Interview With Daniel Jackson | Roger Lee
• 2019 “LLHH interviews famed media connoisseur Daniel Jackson” | LadiesLuvHipHop Podcast
• 2017 The Night Drive with Nobi DeLon Episode 01 | Newark.FM