Praise / News
"I have known Jahmani Perry for over two decades and have been consistently impressed by his photographic and film work. He has been highly productive throughout those years, creating large bodies of thematically-framed work which combines stirring urban reportage with spectacular eruptions of magic realism. The poetics and polemics which merge in his film and video projects are equally imbued with a social justice-driven fusion of sophisticated esthetics and humanist ethics.”
- Greg Tate, music and culture critic, journalist, author, editor, musician, composer, and art co-curator of the Museum of Fine Art, Boston show, Writing the. Future: Basquiat and the Hip Hop Generation, and *May 2024 Pulitzer Prize Winner in Special Citation and Awards, posthumously awarded to Greg Tate
"Jahmani Perry is a poetic image maker with a unique perspective on urban culture who uses photography, film, and installation to evoke contemporary city life from a perspective rarely seen. His aesthetic is descended from Lee Friedlander, Robert Frank, Roy DeCarava, Elliot Erwitt, and Gary Winogrand - filled with wit, joy and moments of great surprise. He is also a master of color as it is uniquely present in the city streets, a palette that reflects the riotous aesthetic of New York in all its variegated cultures.”
- Glenn O' Brien, author & writer of art, fashion, and music
"I think the Asphalt Spirits NYC installation project he envisions could be powerful both as a work of art and as resonant, revelatory history. It could provide an immersive, hopeful, Jahmani Perryesque vision of New York life - notwithstanding the city’s extreme inequities then and now - as a model of quirky, resilient, everyday grassroots American diversity and democracy.”
- Kurt Andersen, novelist, historian, podcast, TV host, and creator/ host of Peabody-winning public radio program Studio 360, WNYC
“Your work speaks of your genuine passion for thought-provoking images.”
- Oliver Stone, Academy Award-winning writer and director
"Jahmani is an insightful filmmaker with a fresh, probing eye that captures the gritty texture and raw emotion of real-life with singular originality"
- Ossie Davis, actor, director, writer, and activist
