Eric Hart Jr. (b.1999), a Georgia native and NYU graduate, is a writer and multidisciplinary artist creating within the artistic mediums of photography and collage. As a photographer, Hart’s stylized portraiture is an exploration of Blackness and queerness. His visual language is heavily influenced by the notion of rejecting control. Through themes of power, freedom, performance, and historical representation, Hart strives to foster consciousness for audiences as he displays people like himself in all of their power and beauty.
Hart’s photo work has been in publications such as i-D Magazine, The NY Times, The Washington Post, and Rolling Stone magazine, as well as praised by artists such as Beyoncé and Spike Lee. Hart is a two-time Gordon Parks scholar, 2022 Forbes 30 under 30 Art & Style honoree, 2022 Doritos SOLID BLACK Changemaker, and a Google Image Equity Fellow. In 2023 Hart released his first monograph titled “When I Think About Power”.
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Licensing Inquiries: Trunk Archive
Selected Clients + Publications
Dazed
Dior
Doritos
HBO x Forty Acres and a Mule Filmworks
i-D Magazine
Men’s Health Magazine
New York Magazine
The New York Times
Office Magazine
Out Magazine
Rolling Stone Magazine
Samsung x WePresent
Sprite
The Washington Post
V Magazine
Wieden+Kennedy
Public Collections
The Rockefeller Foundation
Selected Press
Elephant - Exposing Power Dynamics: Eric Hart Jr.’s Debut Book When I Think About Power
It’s Nice That - Inside Eric Hart Jr.’s intimate portrayal of Black Queer Experience
The 30: New and Emerging Photographers to Watch 2022 - Eric Hart Jr.
Creative Review, Photography Annual - Zeitgeist: Eric Hart Jr
i-D Magazine - Eric Hart Jr.’s Tender Vision of Blackness
Men’s Health Magazine - Eric Hart Jr. Takes Photos to Inspire Next Generation of Black Men
Out Magazine - Photographer Eric Hart Jr. Captures Black Queer Beauty
The Root - Meet the 20-Year-Old Photographer Who Immortalized His Grandparents in Ivy Park
Panels
2021
“Student Perspectives: Conversations in African/Black Identity” Andrew W. Mellon Foundation and University of Maryland seminar project, “African/Black Diaspora Academic and Public Discourse.”
2020
International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam: Feels Good Man, WePresent
Reflecting On The Moments: Photography And Social Protests, Covid19, and #BLM, New York University, Tisch School of the Arts.
2019
Our Archives: Love Through the Mirror, Black Portraitures V: Memory and the Archive Past. Present. Future. New York University
The Making of Hart.Fm, Institute of African American Affairs & Center for Black Visual Culture, New York University
Awards & Honors
NXTHVN Fellow, Cohort 05, 2023
Out 100, Out Magazine, 2023
Google Image Equity Fellow, 2022
Forbes 30 Under 30, Art & Style, 2022
Doritos Solid Black Changemaker, 2022
American Photography, AP38 Selected Winner, 2022
The 30: New and Emerging Photographers to Watch, 2022
Creative Review, Zeitgeist, 2021
The Gordon Parks Foundation Scholarship, 2019, 2020
