En Foco is pleased to announce the release of the Winter issue of Nueva Luz Vol 28.2, The Commissioning Fund Issue. In 2023, En Foco launched the Nueva Luz Study Center (NLSC) and debuted the NLSC Commissioning Fund in an effort to activate the Nueva Luz archives.

The selected artists were tasked with creating original works referencing an artwork, theme, or essay within the NL archives. Shiloah Symone Coley invited three New Yorkers to reflect on images related to daily life by Black women photographers from the first three issues of Nueva Luz in the 1980s. Their observations are the source for this installation, which includes text, storyboards, and animation. Regin Leys and Thiago Szmrecsányi examine the way that artists’ spaces are portrayed in photographs published in Nueva Luz during its first three decades. The resulting installation documents their findings. A series by Adrienne Odom featured in a 2001 issue informs Lisa DuBois’s study of gentrification in Harlem, supported by her own documentation, experience, and contemporary interviews.

This issue includes an essay by curator Elizabeth Ferrer entitled “Remembering Marianna” as an update to her essay about Marianna Yampolsky originally published in Nueva Luz Vol 4.4.