Khary binds imagery to spoken word in order to examine his own adverse childhood experiences, while simultaneously interrogating the efficacy of Amerik³an policing, & the part that he played in its Application.

Education

2015-16 Photography, College for Creative Studies

Professional Experience

2020- Special Agent, Michigan Attorney General’s Office,

Conviction Integrity Unit

2016-23 Co-Director/Co-Founder,

Capturing Belief (CB)

2014-20 Detroit Police Detective,

Detroit Police Homicide Task Force

2003-13 Plain Clothes Policeman,

DetroitPolice Department

1998-03 Uniform Patrolman,

Detroit Police Department

Fellowships

2021 Salzburg Global Seminar, Global Innovations on Youth Violence, Safety & Justice, Salzburg Austria

2019 Facing Change Documenting America, Documenting Detroit Fellowship

Solo Exhibition

2024 Central Michigan University,

Friendly Fire: Scenes of Service,

(Searching for Safety)

Group Exhibitions

2024 The Stories of US

2023 “Another Perspective,”

Photoville, Brooklyn, NY

2023 Alumni Show, College for Creative Studies,

Detroit, MI

2023 Gilda Snowden Memorial Show,

Scarab Club, Detroit, MI

2022 “Framing Fatherhood,”

Corcoran College or Art & Design,

Washington D.C.

Teaching Experience

2022 Faculty , Kalish Picture Editing Workshop,

Rochester Institute of Technology,

Rochester, NY

2017 Visiting Teacher/Facilitator,

Kenyan Institute,

Of Curriculum Development x CB,

Nairobi, Kenya, Africa

2016-23 Teacher/Mentor,

Capturing Belief (Photography, Poetry),

Detroit, Michigan

Speaking Engagements

2024 Keynote Speaker,

Black History Program,

Michigan State Police

2023 Invited Speaker,

Photoville’s Opening Ceremony,

Brooklyn, NY

2023 Invited Panelist,

The Art Gallery of Ontario

Speaking on the role of photographs,

In creating and maintaining a sense of,

Black identity)

2021 Keynote Speaker,

African Diaspora Youth Conference,

University of Windsor, Ontario, Canada

2017 Invited Panelist,

“No Way Out:

Precarious Living in the Shadow of Poverty,

Policing, & Drug Dealing,

With Ethnographer, Dr. Waverly Duck,

University of Michigan, Dearborn , MI

Awards

2023 Gilda Snowden Exhibition,

Honorable Mention for “The Interrogation”

2019 Knight Arts Challenge Grant,

While Co-Directing the non-profit,

Capturing Belief

Publications

2023 Feedback Loop, Zine

2018 Deadline Detroit Article,

“Khary Mason: Football Program,

Helps Detroit Boys,

Learn What It is To Be A Man”

Performances

2022 Images of Resilience,

Roosevelt High School,

Wyandotte Michigan

2023 Best of Twisted, Part 2,

Secret Society of Twisted Storytellers,

Marygrove College, Detroit, MI

2021 Detroit Performs,

Secret Society of Twisted Storytellers,

“How a classroom cloaked racism in science,

To instill fear while teaching,

Police to get away with murder,”

Detroit Public Television

Projects

2022 Project Delorean, a partnership between,

Capturing Belief & Fuji Film with,

CB student (Caria Taylor) who told,

Her story, aided by a production team

To launch the Fuji Film XT-5 Camera

2020 The Remote Ally Project: A (FORD FUND),

Sponsored partnership, Between CB,

& Inside Southwest Detroit,

That helped young people,

Around the globe cope,

While allowing the world to witness,

The pandemic through their eyes

2015-19 Documentary Photographer,

Partnership with New Jersey State Police,

Princeton University

Films

2021 “I Am A Man,”

A short documentary that deals with,

The affects of incarceration on,

The individual, Their family,

& the community. A Documenting Detroit production

2019 “Where Do I Belong,”

A short documentary that utilizes,

Photography, cinematography,

& spoken word,

To explore community,

Racism, education, &

Punishment