In 2023, the artist Dawoud Bey, 71, first presented “Stony the Road,” a series of photographs, and a film, “350,000,” that focus on the Virginia terrain where many African captives first arrived in this country. Those works are now on view in New York for the first time, at Sean Kelly gallery. Here, Bey, whose 1988-91 street portraits of Black American subjects are simultaneously on view at the Denver Art Museum, discusses the works that have impacted how he depicts both everyday people and historical landscapes.
