The Emerging Artist of the Year award recognizes an individual forecasted to make a significant impact in the arts as their career progresses. This year’s winner, Njaimeh Njie, is a Pittsburgh-based photographer, filmmaker, and multimedia producer. Working across photo, video, writing, and curating, her work is rooted in social justice and cultural enrichment. Njie is the Founder/Lead Producer of Eleven Stanley Productions—a nonfiction storytelling company. As the creator of the multimedia series Power(ed) by Grace, her work has earned coverage from outlets such as the Huffington Post, the Carnegie Museum of Art blog, and Blavity, and has exhibited in cities including Pittsburgh, Washington D.C., and New Orleans.

 On the Daily

On the Daily is a multimedia exhibition created by photographer/filmmaker Njaimeh Njie. Njie supplements documentary photographs with audio, text, and video to explore how black Pittsburgh residents are navigating life in the city’s current liminal moment; a period of uncertainty, transition, and the possibility of transformation. This exhibit centers the routines, reflections, and forms of resistance that manifest in the lives of black Pittsburghers--in turn representing the diversity of Pittsburgh’s black population, while also compiling a collection of lived experiences that complicate the narrative of the city’s livability. Ultimately, On the Daily preserves a piece of black contemporary life to provide a foundation from which black futures can be imagined. By holding space to reflect on a moment that’s still unfolding, this body of work presents an opportunity to interrogate if and how what comes next for a city can be better than what is, and what has been.

About the Artist:

Njaimeh Njie is a Pittsburgh based photographer, filmmaker, and multimedia producer. Working across photo, video, writing, and curating, her work is rooted in social justice and cultural enrichment. Njaimeh is the Founder/Lead Producer of Eleven Stanley Productions—a nonfiction storytelling company. As the creator of the multimedia series Power(ed) by Grace, her work has earned coverage from outlets such as the Huffington Post, the Carnegie Museum of Art blog, and Blavity, and has exhibited in cities including Pittsburgh, Washington D.C., and New Orleans.