SONGS OF LOVING LATE

Filter Photo is pleased to present Songs of Loving Late, a solo exhibition by Jamil Fatti.

"Songs of Loving Late begins with the passing of my auntie, Mama Fatty, who helped raise my father after the death of his own father when he was still a baby. I keep thinking about what passed from her into him, and from him into me: discipline, tenderness, restraint, humor, posture, fear, faith, and the particular ways a person learns to touch a public, shared world. Her physical presence is gone, but the force of her hand remains, passing through lives that continue after her.

These pictures follow the ripples a life leaves behind: the quiet transmissions that become embedded in others, irreversible and ordinary, until they begin to feel like fate. In the space opened by her absence, I find myself looking more carefully at the fragile world that remains: shared, imperfect, always changing, but still worth caring for. I look at pictures of a world without Mama Fatty, trying my best to love all else that cannot be kept."

—Jamil Fatti

About the Artist

Jamil Fatti is a Gambian-American artist whose work explores transience, memory, and the search for meaning in impermanence. He holds a Master of Fine Arts from the Rhode Island School of Design (RISD) and dual Bachelor's degrees in Landscape Architecture and City & Regional Planning from Cornell University.

Working primarily in photography, Fatti reimagines fragments of the external world into intimate, contemplative scenes that speak to vulnerability, loss, and the passage of time. His work has been exhibited internationally and across the United States, in venues such as the Atlanta Contemporary Art Center, Microscope Gallery in New York, Filter Space in Chicago, Trastienda Machete Galeria in Mexico City, and Millepiani Gallery in Rome.

Rooted in the ephemeral, Fatti’s recent projects evoke the quiet emotional resonance of fleeting moments. His work is held in public and private collections, including the RISD Museum, and has been featured in publications such as The New York Times, Atlanta Center for Photography’s New South, and Float Magazine.