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FIERCE: Pittsburgh reviews and press mentions!

Exhibition Press

FIERCE: Pittsburgh Press

Reviews


Ajamu X’s FIERCE at Silver Eye
Pittsburgh Review of Books
Edward Simon
March 4, 2026

"In thirteen portraits made last year, FIERCE: Pittsburgh celebrates individuals shaping the city’s Black queer culture today, affirming their place within a vibrant, evolving global archive."

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FIERCE in Pittsburgh: Ajamu X Captures the Beauty and Power of Black Queer Life
QBurgh
Michael Buzzelli
March 6, 2026

"The Black British photographer’s global portrait project, created with Pittsburgh’s Black LGBTQ+ arts community and Rainbow Serpent, runs through May 2 at the Silver Eye Center for Photography."

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Ajamu X brings FIERCE to Pittsburgh
Petrichor Magazine
Tara Fay Coleman
April 14, 2026

"In Pittsburgh. Black presence in the city is often asked to locate itself within a narrative of displacement, and to account for what has been lost or erased. There is at times a pressure for images to carry that, and to stand in for something larger than themselves. These portraits do not take that on. They do not explain the city, or the conditions around them. They remain with the subject, and within the terms of the image itself. At the same time, the work is not isolated within the local.

Fierce moves across cities, building connections that extend beyond place. Ajamu describes this as a cross-Atlantic diasporic relation, where people appear as “familiar strangers,” linked through something that is felt rather than defined. “Whenever queer Black people are in the world, we are connected,” he says, describing a thread that runs through the work, even as it moves between different cities."

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Visiting photographer celebrates queer Black Pittsburghers
WESA
Bill O’Driscoll
April 15, 2026

"FIERCE: Pittsburgh consists of elegant black-and-white portraits by British photographer Ajamu X of 13 Black queer artists and activists based here. It’s at Silver Eye Center for Photography through May 2."

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Press Mentions


NEXT in the Gallery
NEXT Pittsburgh
L.E. McCullough
February 25, 2026

Silver Eye : Ajamu X : FIERCE : Pittsburgh
L'Œil de la Photographie
March 3, 2026

What to do this weekend: 'Forbidden Broadway' musical comedy, 'Fierce: Pittsburgh' exhibit
90.5 WESA
March 5, 2026
Bill O'Driscoll

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