Bill Tennessen, a long-time contributing photographer for the Milwaukee Community Journal, is getting his just due with a photo exhibition of his photography documenting the city’s Black community from the 1980s to the early 2000s.
Called, “Dynamic Range,” the exhibition includes 48 photographs by Tennessen highlighting such community events such as the Ernest Lacy demonstrations, Juneteenth Day celebrations, activities of the Boys & Girls Clubs of Greater Milwaukee and the Ko-Thi Dance Company. He also covered other cultural and political personalities of our time. He’s shown here in these three photos at the opening night reception for the exhibit, which is at the Haggerty Museum of Art on the campus of Marquette University, downtown. He is shown with his family and two fans of his work. A self-taught photographer, Bill, who is a Marquette alum, started taking photos for the MCJ in 1981.
—Photos by Kim Robinson