Selected Talks

• “Tribute to Doug Harris”
  Vision & Justice Now Convening, Ford Foundation
  New York City · October 6–7, 2025
• “Photography | Democracy | Race”
  “Democracy, Race, and the Power of Images” symposium, Museum of Modern Art
  New York · October 2, 2024
• “Black Habits of Photography”
  Anna-Maria Kellen Lecture, American Academy in Berlin
  Berlin, Germany · March 14, 2024
• “Being Seen to Be Free: Photography and Black Power”
  Photography Speaks of Revolutions virtual series, KBr Fundación MAPFRE / Barcelona Photo Center
  Barcelona, Spain · November 16, 2021
• “Material and Memory: Sanford Biggers and Leigh Raiford”
  Visualizing Abolition, UC Santa Cruz Institute of Arts and Sciences
  Virtual · February 9, 2021

Selected Media

• Inside a Black Panther Family Album
  Hyperallergic
  2026
• African American Studies Professor Discusses How Photography Shapes Black Visions of Home in New Book
  Berkeley Letters & Science
  2026
• “Dawoud Bey & Leigh Raiford: Conversations on Collaboration in Photography”
  Focal Point podcast, WCRX-FM, Chicago
  2025
• Marieke Fischer, “Leigh Raiford: Rethinking the History of Photography”
  Sleek Magazine (Germany)
  August 8, 2024
• “How Civil Rights Have Been Used and Remembered”
  Interview conducted by Holly S. Hughes, The Democratic Lens/The Center
  May 2023
• Lynching Postcards: Token of a Great Day
  Christine Turner (director), Firelight Films
  On camera contributor. Winner, NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Short-Form Series or Special – Reality/Nonfiction; Shortlisted for Academy Award for Short Documentary
  2021
• “On Leslie Hewitt—Riffs on Real Time”
  Exhibition audio for Off the Record, Guggenheim Museum (NY)
  April–September 2021
• “Q&A: The history of imagery in Black social movements”
  Interview by Emily Hoerner, Injustice Watch
  July 7, 2020
• “How Do We Photograph Freedom? A Conversation with Leigh Raiford”
  Hyperallergic
  Co-edited with Hrag Vartanian. Commissioned co-edited interview
  June 21, 2020