Our inaugural 2024/25 program featured Shawn Michelle Smith, Brenna Wynn Greer, Thy Phu, Darren Newbury, Ileana L. Selejan, and Patricia Hayes. Each speaker in the series recommended a reading for further exploration:
Patricia Hayes, “Poisoned Landscapes” in Santu Mofokeng and Corinne Diserens, Chasing Shadows. Santu Mofokeng: Thirty Years of Photographic Essays. Munich: Prestel, 2011, 202-9
Ileana L. Selejan, “Insurgent Archive: The Photographic Making and Un-making of the Nicaraguan Revolutionary State.” In Citizens of Photography: The Camera and the Political Imagination, edited by Christopher Pinney, et al., 192-233. Durham: Duke University Press, 2023
Chapter 4: ‘“A Pleasant Mixture of Negro and White”: Photographing Civil Rights as Democracy in Action’, 119-68, in Darren Newbury, Cold War Photographic Diplomacy: The US Information Agency and Africa. University Park: Penn State University Press, 2024
To request a copy of this recommended reading, please email us.
Thy Phu, ‘Refugee Photography and the Subject of Human Interest’ in Photography and Migration, ed. Tanya Sheehan (London: Routledge, 2020): 135-149
Martha J. Cutter, “The Fugitive Gazes Back: The Photographic Performance Work of Frederick Douglass and Sojourner Truth” in InMedia, 8.2 (2020)
Shawn Michelle Smith, “Introduction: Photographic Returns” in Photographic Returns: Racial Justice and the Time of Photography. Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 2020
