Resounding with Echoes
Sojourns across Africa and America
Through a nuanced interplay of black-and-white and color photography, Richard Hay Jr. traces quiet correspondences between West Africa and the Americas, offering a lyrical meditation on everyday life across geography and time.
Framed by an essay by renowned Nigerian author Emmanuel Iduma, the images are situated within a broader reflective context, collapsing temporal distance and proposing photography as a means of attentive witnessing—one that honors the ordinary while acknowledging the layered histories embedded within it.
⏛ Reviews ⏛
A Beautiful Meditative Journey Through Observation and Memory
> AllAboutPhoto
“A slender, beautifully printed hardcover volume, it’s a very personal and subjective work.”
> The Parallax Review
These 50-Year-Old Photographs Still Feel Strangely Connected: Richard Hay Jr. on Time, Memory, and Seeing the Same World Twice. >AboutPhotography
New Photobooks Released This Spring >Aestheticamagazine
⏛ Fall 2026 Exhibitions and Talks ⏛
Expand and Contract: American Documentary Photography in the 21st Century (Virtual), Los Angeles Center of Photography, 7/16 - 10/16.
Members’ Exhibition, SF Camerawork, San Francisco, 9/16 - 10/4.
Book Launch & Artist Talk, Perspective Gallery, Evanston, 9/24, 7pm CDT
Online Artist Talk, Creating a Photobook from My Archive, Center for Photographic Art, 9/30, 5pm PDT.
