Photographer Dawoud Bey discussess his new exhibition on Nov. 12 at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts (VMFA). Titled “Dawoud Bey: Elegy,” the artist’s photographs and film installations reimagine Virginia’s slave trail, Louisiana plantations and Ohio’s Underground Railroad, evoking istories that no longer are visible. Along with two earlier series, “Elegy” debuts works created by Mr. Bey in Richmond. “Stony the Road” is a photographic series commissioned by the VMFA of the nearly three-mile-long Richmond Slave Trail, while the artist’s film, “350,000,” reminds viewers of the more than 350,000 men, women and children sold from Richmond’s auction blocks between 1830 and 1860.
