Shooting Family Sequence: Museum Object and Cultural History

The object in the museum catalogue

A black-and-white archival process photograph of Nicholas Pilarski shooting the "Family" sequence for I, Destini. The shot takes place in an auditorium. Nicholas Pilarski can be seen to the left filming Destini's mother, Lattina Riley. To the far right, Destini's father, Carlos Riley, sits in front of a laptop. Closer to the foreground, a woman sits in front of a prop television set.

Materials, dates and provenance

• Date: 2015
• Photograph by: Unidentified
• Subject of: Nicholas Pilarski, American
• Subject of: Lattina Lennon Riley, American
• Subject of: Carlos Riley, American
• Subject of: Patricia Riley, American
• Type: photographs
• Medium: ink on photographic paper
• Dimensions: H x W: 8 × 10 in. (20.3 × 25.4 cm)
• Place captured: Durham, Durham County, North Carolina, United States, North and Central America
• Topic: African American
• Topic: Families
• Topic: Independent films
• Topic: Journalism
• Topic: Justice
• Topic: Police brutality
• Topic: Prisons
• Topic: Youth
• Object number: 2018.94.4.20
• Credit Line: Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, Gift of Destini T. Riley, Nicholas Pilarski, Lattina Lennon Riley, Sarah M. Bassett, Kathleen Lingo and The New York Times Company
• Data Source: National Museum of African American History and Culture

Sources and reuse

Catalogue descriptions and facts adapted from National Museum of African American History and Culture through the Smithsonian's official Open Access dataset. This record explicitly marks its metadata CC0 1.0; formatting and selection have been changed. The underlying object's rights statement is: © Destini T. Riley, Nicholas Pilarski, Lattina Lennon Riley, Sarah M. Bassett, The New York Times Company Permission required for use. Proper usage is the responsibility of the user.