The Rain Will Follow

Photographer and filmmaker Eugene Richards has authored 18 books, including "Dorchester Days" (1978), a portrait of the inner-city neighborhood where he was raised; "Cocaine True, Cocaine Blue" (1994), a study of the impact of hardcore drugs on American inner cities; "War Is Personal" (2010), a documentation in words and pictures of the consequences of the Iraq war; and "Red Ball of a Sun Slipping Down" (2014), which speaks of life in the Arkansas Delta decades ago and today. Richards's photographs are in the collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, MoMA, and SFMoMA among others, and his film, “Thy Kingdom Come” (2018), which premiered at SXSW last year, has screened at a dozen film festivals worldwide. A retrospective exhibition of his photographs opened in 2017 at the George Eastman Museum, subsequently traveling to the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art and the International Center of Photography in NYC.

With his partner, Janine Altongy, Richards is co-director of Many Voices, a not-for-profit media group in Brooklyn, New York, that produces socially-concerned films and books.