Harlan Bozeman is a lens-based artist whose research-driven practice has focused on confronting the erasure of Black culture and its histories, and investigating the legacies of slavery and its aftermath in the American South. His previous work explored the Gullah Sea Islands communities, specifically Wadmalaw Island where his family is from, and the narratives that serve to prolong their cultural significance. A graduate of the University of Arkansas, Bozeman earned a MFA in Studio Art, and went to DePaul University in Chicago where he received a BA in Journalism. He recently attended the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture and has been featured in The Atlantic, British Journal of Photography, Der Grief, The New York Times, and The Wall Street Journal. Bozeman is currently a Visiting Assistant Professor of Photography at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock.
Harlan Bozeman will present at “Meet the Artist” on November 7th.
Ally Caple is an artist and educator living and working in New York City. She leads the Expanding the Walls teen program at The Studio Museum in Harlem and works with The Photographer’s Green Book and Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture. Caple has completed programs at the Studio Museum in Harlem, the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, Magnum Foundation, and is an upcoming resident at Wassaic Project. Working primarily in photography, her current practice considers surveillance, digital safety, and black visibility in image making.
Ally Caple will present at “Meet the Artist” on December 5th.
Sabiha Çimen was born in Istanbul, Turkey. She is a self-taught photographer, graduated from Istanbul Bilgi University with an undergraduate degree in International Trade and Finance, and a Masters degree in Cultural Studies. Sabiha Cimen works on long term photo projects focusing on portraiture and still life rooted in Islamic culture. Her first and latest long-term photo project ‘Hafiz’ focuses on the daily life of the young girls in Quran schools in Turkey. Her work is also supported by Lightwork, World Press photo, Eugene Smith Foundation, Aperture-Paris Photo. She is an associate photographer in Magnum Photo Agency. She lives between Istanbul and New York. Cimen is mostly developing self-reflective projects close to home in lstanbul.
Kholood Eid (b. 1987) is a Palestinian American documentary photographer, filmmaker and educator based in New York City. Her work explores the depths of vulnerability, the strength in survival, the beauty in adversity and the intersectionality of identity by blending conceptual and reportage practices. Photography is a form of healing she uses for herself and those she connects with. In 2020, she and her colleagues received a Robert F. Kennedy Journalism Award for The New York Times Series “Exploited,” which investigated the explosion of online child sexual assault material. She’s taught middle schoolers at the Bronx Documentary Center and graduate students at NYU and Columbia University. In 2023, the Wet Nose Pawject was launched as an outlet for her obsessive love for dogs.
Salvador Espinoza is a photographer born and raised in New York City. Primarily a documentary photographer and photojournalist he specializes in focusing on social issues by shooting realistic slices of everyday life. His work has won awards from The Queens Council on the Arts as well as The New York City Council and has been published in the New York Times, BBC News, NPR, Rolling Stone and Mass Appeal.
Salvador Espinoza will present at “Meet the Artist” on November 7th.
Camille Farrah Lenain is a French-Algerian documentary and portrait photographer who grew up in Paris, studied Photography at l’ESA in Brussels and at ICP in New York City (virtual). She relocated to New Orleans in 2013, where she teaches at Tulane University and works on long-term projects with a focus on empathetic portraiture, exploring the notions of stereotypes, collective memory and plural identities. Her clients include : The New York Times, Rolling Stone, The Washington Post Magazine, T Magazine, Sierra Magazine, The Bitter Southerner and Libération. Her photographs have been exhibited internationally, including at the Arab World Institute, the Ogden Museum of Southern Art, Les Boutographies, PhotoVogue Festival. She was previously an Artist in Residence at the Joan Mitchell Center and NUNU’s Arts Collective.
Arlene Mejorado is a lens-based artist from Los Angeles working with analog and digital photography, 16mm film, video, archives, zines, and mixed-media installations. Informed by her upbringing in a migrant household, Mejorado is interested in repair work, countering erasure and mending fragments in personal, collective, diasporic, and migration experiences within stories and narratives. Her adolescent experience navigating the San Fernando Valley’s mundane yet spectacularized movie-making landscape as well as her immersion in LA’s subcultural circuits fostered a critical vantage point that continues to influence her practice. Mejorado has been awarded the Center for Photography at Woodstock Artist Residency, Magnum Foundation Photography and Social Justice fellowship, Aperture Creator’s Lab, DocX fellowship with the Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University, the Performance Lab at the Brown Institute for Media Innovation, New York Portfolio Review, the NALAC artist grant, and the Lucie Foundation Independent Book Award. She holds a B.A. in Latin American Studies from The University of Texas at Austin and an M.F.A. in Visual Arts from The University of California in San Diego.
Zora J Murff is an artist and educator living in Rhode Island. He uses a black feminist ideology to create art that promotes critical self-reflection and teaches visual literacy about matters of blackness in American culture. Zora has published multiple books of his artwork including his most recent, True Colors (Or, Affirmations In A Crisis), published by Aperture Foundation. His work has been collected internationally by institutions including Museum of Modern Art, the National Gallery of Art, Victoria & Albert Museum, and the Studio Museum in Harlem. In 2023, Zora was named an ICP 2023 Infinity Award winner alongside Ming Smith and Ariella Azoulay. Like bell hooks, he strives to honor his working class background in all of his creative endeavors. To provide service to the artistic field, Zora has spent his career collaborating with other creatives in grass-roots arts organizing including Strange Fire Collective, The Photographer’s Green Book, and independent curatorial projects.
Andina Marie Osorio is a Nuyorican artist born in the Bronx and is currently based in New Haven, Connecticut. Osorio’s practice utilizes photography and image based installations to examine themes like domestic space and lineage in relation to her Puerto Rican heritage and her queer identity. Her interiors of domestic spaces transform into pictorial collages that question how to make a portrait without a physical body. While in her installations, the ephemera and materials used incite incidental memories and activate ancestral energies referencing the feminine domestic setting. Osorio’s understanding of the queer image is explored through still life, the gaze and environmental portraits. She is a recipient of the City Artist Corps Grant of New York City and was apart of the ForFreedoms AWAKENING Billboard Campaign. Her work has been shown at the LES Gallery at The Clemente and she is a current Yale CCAM Fellow. She has been featured in Musee Magazine, Port Magazine and Elephant Magazine. She is a MFA Candidate at Yale School of Art and is expected to graduate in May 2024.
Avion Pearce is an artist from Brooklyn, NY. Pearce studied Photography at Parsons School of Design and is a current MFA candidate for Photography at Yale School of Art. They received the Parsons School of Design BFA Photography Scholarship, and they are a 2022 NYSCA/NYFA Fellowship recipient. Their work has been shown in Ryan Lee gallery, Photo Vogue Festival, and Aperture Foundation. Their work has been featured in The Cut, Dazed, W magazine and Broadly.