Jeary is a multi disciplinarian artist, telling stories and creating art across mediums. Based in Brooklyn, NY by way of Phoenix Arizona. He is a musician, writer, orator and photographer. He currently serves as an Associate Educator at The Metropolitan Museum of Art and is pursuing a Masters of Art in Oral History from Columbia University.
Who will tell the stories after us? — Is a question that serves as a guiding principle for my visual work. As a Black photographer and image maker, working and living in Brooklyn, New York I am inspired to document scenes that represent the nuance, micro moments of Black life and experiences of real people: to acknowledge the spaces that I occupy and to hold space for the peoples and communities who are living and breathing here right now. I want to preserve the Black collective memory through film as means to combat erasure via gentrification, mass incarceration and police brutality. I want us to be remembered; it has been through my exploration of Brooklyn, my willingness to be vulnerable, to be present, to listen and observe while being in community, that I have been able to concretize the purpose and intent behind my work. We are remembered through the connections we make and experiences we share. I want to make canon the unfolding stories that are being told right now.