An exhibit of contemporary photography by Ron Anton Rocz & featuring the interpretive modern hip hop dancing of Lamar Hunter.

 

Scattered around Charleston are brilliant hip hop graffiti and urban murals created with the spray can. They provide colorful backdrops to the interpretive hip hop movements one of Charleston's rising talents in dance as captured by one of Charleston's well known photographers. The movements give expression to this African American dancer's struggles and thrust into liberation, freedom and his future. The collection also represents a creative collaboration between this "black youth" and his "older white mentor" as they mark their 10 year "mentor/mentee" relationship.

 

Lamar Hunter, coming from John's Island, is a graduate of the Charleston School of the Arts. He dances and teaches with the "Peace, Love and Hip Hop" Dance Studio on Daniel Island.  He has participated in workshops with Rennie Harris, America's leading hip hop choreographer. His great grandmother, Janie Hunter, was a famed singer and story teller with the Moving Star Hall praise house.

 

Ron Rocz, a free-lance photographer in Charleston for 4 decades, was previously active in anti-poverty and race relations programs, the civil rights movement and degreed in professional social work administration. He directed the local Kids-with-Cameras program, has published 3 books, and nationally has exhibited his fine art photography of Eastern Europe, Cuba, Iceland and the Mississippi Delta.