Artwork for the Soul: John Pinderhughes

Artwork is the window into our souls, the mirror of our lives. It provides classes in love and is a refuge from despair.

Our African ancestors knew its energy. Enslaved folks used it when the phrases wouldn’t come. From easy sketches to advanced configurations, our artwork has defined our moods, instructed our tales and sustained our souls. Artwork has marked our place in life and our ideas of time. It has unwoven the tapestry of our goals and, certainly, set us free. SIGNATURE BRIDE salutes Black artists—women and men all over the world linked by a typical thread. 

Business photographer John Pinderhughes has labored in New York Metropolis for almost 4 many years. He’s the grasp of his personal full-service studio and boasts promoting shoppers together with such high-profile names as Con Edison, Verizon, Chase Financial institution, Anheuser-Busch, BMW, American Household Insurance coverage, Prudential Insurance coverage, Ford Motors, JC Penney, Sears, McDonald’s, Burger King, Coors, Pepsi and Sony. His portfolio of editorial work consists of Black Enterprise, Meals & Wine, Odyssey Couleur, Household Circle, Essence, The New York Occasions and Scientific American—all of which have put his work within the fingers of tens of millions of viewers. 

Along with his business work, Pinderhughes has parlayed his expertise to the fantastic arts realm, creating a reputation for himself exterior of corporately paid campaigns and exhibiting his works in quite a few one-man reveals at venues such because the Studio Museum, MOMA, the Brooklyn Museum, the Bronx Museum and the Smithsonian American Artwork Museum. His skill to seize a second, a sense and a message has garnered acclaim by way of quite a few awards and grants—proving the value and energy of his work.

Pinderhughes can be the writer of a cookbook, six youngsters’s books and a collaboration with writer Harriette Cole known as “Coming Collectively.” Stepping out from behind the digital camera, he has served on the board of the Promoting Photographers of America (NY) and was an adjunct professor of pictures within the photograph division at New York College. He serves on the board of the Lengthy Island chapter of The Nature Conservancy and has been acknowledged as a Canon Print Grasp and a Canon Explorer of Gentle. 

In July, Pinderhughes took half in Artwork & Soul Hamptons within the Hamptons, an immersive cultural expertise celebrating BIPOC artists and that includes movie star leisure, an artwork stroll and a Black culinary expertise.