March 5 - March 12, 2026

Special Edition: Maï Lucas

For one week only, purchase a limited edition print by Maï Lucas in support of the production of Lucas’ first New York solo exhibition at Dashwood Projects in April 2026.

“Summer of 1986, Maï Lucas arrived in New York on a summer evening, she was supposed to stay with a distant aunt who had assured she’d meet her in front of Lincoln Center. At 10PM, still with no sighting of the woman, she waited on a street corner without a way to reach her. Lucas ended up bumping into a couple on the street as she waited, two men heading downtown, offering her a couch for the night. Lucas’ stories in New York are hard to make sense of without asking questions of fate, of connection, of safety, until one witnesses how she unfolds in her day. She is a precise, fierce and trusting presence, curious and open to the unknown. Over the years, friends of friends, musicians, brothers and girlfriends showed her around town and she kept on coming back.

The photographs span nearly two decades: late eighties, nineties, into the early 2000s. From Harlem to East New York, Jamaica Queens, and later in the Heights with her husband and his family. Mostly outside. The block, the stoop, the corner, the car hood. Manhood and womanhood stand side by side, as markers of time, in a world where today it is all a blur. At the time, space feels negotiated, subjects are held up for each other to see. Recording the birth of hip-hop, and composing her own life in the footsteps of jazz and the blues, Lucas’ archive stands as a score for taking part in the act of remembrance.”

– Philo Cohen on Maï Lucas

A portion of this print sale's proceeds will benefit Speciwomen, our mission and endeavors.

About the artist

Maï Lucas is a Franco-Vietnamese photographer based in Paris whose work spans art, fashion, and documentary photography. Since her debut in 1986, she has chronicled the emergence of hip-hop culture in France, building close relationships with the young musicians, graffiti artists, and dancers who pioneered the movement. Her bond to New York City is one of many decades during which Lucas has photographed the city from within. Her monographs include Hip Hop Diary of a Fly Girl 1986–1996 Paris and All Eyes On Me (Edition Patrick Frey). Her work has been exhibited internationally in galleries and museums since 2003. New York Days (Dashwood Projects, forthcoming 2026) is Lucas’ first solo exhibition in New York, forty years of her first visit to the city.