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Ethno Photographer Studio 3-111 I am an African American ethno/photographer. At the core of my work is documenting the lives and experiences of people of color throughout the world. I give particular interest to the descendants of Africa who are now living in the Western Hemisphere. My photography attempts to bring context to social documentation and cultural criticism by exploring contemporary issues through photographic representation. I want people to reveal themselves in ways that celebrate aspects of their lives that are typically hidden. My camera is a witness. It serves to illuminate their soul and create a visual record of an experience between two people: photographer and the person photographed. I believe a picture is what you see at one precise moment, never again repeated with the same honesty, clarity, and realism. Because of this I prefer documentary style photography. The core of my reasoning holds that documentary photographers attempt to find the essence of a singular event in the totality of their human experience. My task is to find an honest manner to visually construct more than simply a pictorial representation of a moment, but instead to reproduce, in photographic print, the distillation of a situation. The indefinable instant when subject and form come together to produce not merely a photographic description, but visual poetry.
EDUCATION: MFA, School of Art and Design University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan AB, Political Science Duke University, Durham, North Carolina
MUSEUM COLLECTIONS: Smithsonian Anacostia Museum of African American Art and History, Washington, District of Columbia North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh, North Carolina LeHigh University Zoeller Galleries, Bethlehem, Pennsylvania North Carolina Central University Museum of Art, Durham, North Carolina Casa de Africa, Havana, Cuba Various Private Collectors
PUBLICATIONS: International Journal of African and African American Art Viajeros: North American Artist/Photographers’ Images of Cuba
AWARDS and FELLOWSHIPS:Hampton University Museum of Art New Power Generation 2005, Ruben V. Burrell Photography Award American Photographic Institute, Tisch School, NewYork University Fellow, Summer 2001 University of Michigan Rackham Fellowship 2000-2002 Arts in Citizenship Fellowship 2001-2002 Alice Webber Glover Film Award, Fall 2001 University of Iowa Graduate Arts Fellowship Durham Arts Council Emerging Artist Grant
RECENT EXHIBITIONS: SECCA-Winston Salem, NC-October 2007-January 2008 Contemporary North Carolina Photographers Gallery Project-Ann Arbor, Michigan-October-December 2007 Signs and Symbols Points of View Gallery – Raleigh, NC – February – March 2007 Crossing Cultures North Carolina Museum of Art – September 2006 – February 2007 Contemporary North Carolina Photography from the Museum’s Collection North Carolina Central University Museum of Art Plantation Lullaby – September 2005 Duke University Reynolds Theater Gallery, Durham, NC, January 2006 One God, One Faith, One Baptism Noyes Cultural Center Evanston, Illinois February 2006 Places of Grace
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