“Welcome to HMSC Connects!, where we go behind the scenes of four Harvard museums to explore the connections between us, our big, beautiful world, and even what lies beyond. My name is Jennifer Berglund, part of the exhibits team here at the Harvard Museums of Science and Culture. And I’ll be your host. Today I’m speaking with Wendel White, a photographer, educator, cultural worker, and the 2021 recipient of the Peabody Museum’s Robert Gardner Fellowship in Photography. We recently opened his exhibition, Manifest: Thirteen Colonies at the Peabody. It’s a powerful photographic engagement with African American material culture, housed in collections throughout the 13 original United States colonies and Washington DC. He explains that his photographs are a response to the collective physical remnants of the American concept and representation of race. Here he is! Wendel White, welcome to the show!”