Work samples

  • The Age Of All Women: The Becoming of Younousse Seye

    Following the career of Younousse Seye, Senegal’s first female contemporary artist, this project consists of a film, art catalogue and exhibition which examine the contingencies that govern the remembrance of Black women artists.

  • ...that's why He made momma

    As they realize they could lose their matriarch's home, a brother and sister, Lendl and Salome turn the camera on their great-grandmother, Nannie, and her nine descendants in order to reimagine their family’s legacy. 

    As the siblings sift through memories and history, they chronicle the ingenuity of generational single black motherhood and grapple with its inheritance.

     

    This and excerpt from the forth coming feature film.


     

  • Dos Noemis

    The story of 2 women who united agricultural migrant workers in rural New York; ultimately creating the State's first Farmworkers' Union.


     

  • Erotic Project

    A portrait of performance artist Arien Wilkerson visually examining the line between eroticism and liberation.

About Lendl

Lendl Tellington is an artist who works across film, photography and installation. His practice tinkers with the line between nostalgia and memory as a means to subvert our prescribed histories and illuminate the contributions of unsung communities.

 

His work has been recognized by Smithsonian’s Outwin Boochever Portrait Competition and The Creative Alliance… more