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Decolonization and Diversity in Contemporary Photography is a powerful collection that celebrates and exhibits the talents of underrepresented artists. It is essential reading for both photography students and aspiring photographers.
List of contents
Foreword by Carla Williams Introduction
The Photographer Interviews 1. Elia Alba 2. Laylah Amatullah Barrayn 3. Sheila Pree-Bright 4. Nakeya Brown 5. Albert Chong 6. Neil Chowdhury 7. Gerald Cyrus 8. Hernease Davis 9. Nona Faustine 10. André França 11. Lola Flash 12. Russell Frederick 13. Myra Greene 14. Eric J Henderson 15. Chester Higgins, Jr. 16. Janna Ireland 17. Andrew Jackson 18. Arnika Dawkins (Gallerist) 19. Priya Kambli 20. Mãe Preta (Isabel Löfgren and Patricia Gouvêa) 21. Marcia Michael 22. Ayana V. Jackson 23. Carlos Alvarez Montero 24. Jaime Permuth 25. Aïda Muluneh 26. Eileen Perrier 27. Gabriel Garcia Roman 28. Justine Reyes 29. Kalen Roach 30. Keisha Scarville 31. Jamel Shabazz 32. Manjari Sharma 33. Camille Seaman 34. Arturo Soto 35. Kim Weston
Essays on Contemporary Photography by Qiana Mestrich 36. Marcia Michael Subverts the Post-Colonial Gaze on Black Britons 37. Photography and Black Motherhood: Envisioning A Black Maternal Authority 38. An Impossible Fecundity: Hernease Davis' Light-Sensitive Womb 39. A Shuttering of Dreams: Cian Oba-Smith Visualizes the Historical Consequences of Redlining on Syracuse's Black Populations 40. Dos Mundos: A Photographic Frame Switching Between Cultures 41. I've Come To Take You Home: Photography and Black, Female Performance 42. Allana Clarke: Defining Blackness within Blackness Photography Collections International Photography Festivals and Fairs Index
About the author
Qiana Mestrich is an interdisciplinary artist, photo historian, educator and writer. Born and raised in New York City to immigrant parents from Panama and Croatia, Mestrich's autobiographical artwork and research engages issues around Black, mixed-race identity, motherhood/mothering and women's corporate labor.
A graduate of the ICP-Bard College MFA in Advanced Photographic Practice, Mestrich received her B.A. with a concentration in photography from Sarah Lawrence College. She was an adjunct faculty in photography and social media at the Fashion Institute of Technology (SUNY). In 2022, Mestrich was awarded the Magnum Foundation Counter Histories grant for her @WorkingWOC Instagram archive project on women of color in the corporate workplace.
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Decolonization and Diversity in Contemporary Photography is a powerful collection that celebrates and exhibits the talents of underrepresented artists. It is essential reading for both photography students and aspiring photographers.
