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talks & interviews
People of the Earth
What can artists, archivists, and communities learn from historic collections of Native photography?
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How Digital Platforms Celebrate Black Photographers and the African Diaspora
Campbell Addy and Jamal Nxedlana speak about building international audiences for Black art, culture, and fashion.
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Samuel Fosso and the Invention of the Artist as a Young Photographer
In an interview for his new monograph, Fosso spoke with the late curator Okwui Enwezor about his teenage self-portraits and how all his work concerns the question of power.
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How Yurie Nagashima’s Self-Portraits Interrogate the Male Gaze
In her latest photobook, the Japanese photographer discusses self-portraiture as a radical feminist gesture.
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In Pop Culture and Propaganda, an Alternate History of the Cold War Era
Aikaterini Gegisian’s new artist book—made from appropriated images—centers physical pleasure as a form of resistance to capitalism.
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The Original Ballad
How did Nan Goldin’s slideshow with hundreds of images, presented at bars and nightclubs, become an iconic photobook?
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Why Photo Editors Need to Hire Black Photographers Every Day
And not only during a crisis.
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Mikael Owunna’s Photographs Show the Essence of Black Healing
In his glittering portraits, the artist is building an alternate world.
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In a World of Loneliness, One Photographer’s Search for Community
Eli Durst speaks about team-building exercises, suburban Americana, and why his photographs resist interpretation.
