Photographers of Color Podcast

For this episode, I’m speaking with Dr. Robert Cochran. Professor in the Department of English here at the University of Arkansas. His research and teaching interests include American Studies, American Literature, Folklore, and contemporary literature, and he has numerous publications and awards to his name, including a 1989 Guggenheim Fellowship. We speak about Cochran’s book, A Photographer of Note: Arkansas Artist Geleve Grice, and many memories of Mr. Grice during the making of the book, photographs, and his legacy.

Co-host University of Arkansas School of Art 1st Year MFA student Trent Bozeman in Conversation with Andre Ramos-Woodard.

Jasmine Clarke is a 25-year-old photographer born (and based) in Brooklyn, New York. She graduated from Bard College in 2018 with a BA in Photography. Inspired by the surreal qualities of our waking world, her images play with the tension between fiction and reality. Her images have been shown at Howard Greenberg Gallery in Manhattan and are currently on view at Photoville in Brooklyn Bridge Park, the Photo Vogue Festival in Milan, and the National Center for Civil and Human Rights in Atlanta.

In this episode we speak about Raymond’s career as a photojournalist, his project Appalachian Ghosts, current works in progress and much more.

During this podcast we talk about two bodies of work from Bowman:

Here Now, in which she explores landscapes of historical significance in the U.S., monuments and artifacts found in museums and public spaces, all in an effort to investigate the histories of people left out of the grand historical narratives that we are more familiar

The other body of work that we talk about is, What Had Happened, Bowman returns to where she grew up (the Baldwin Hills, Inglewood, and Crenshaw neighborhoods of Los Angeles, CA), opening her own history to ask questions about the role location and landscape play in personal evolution. With a particular interest in Black Baby Boomers and The Great Migration, which refers to the movement or relocation of more than 6 million African Americans from the rural South to the cities of the North, Midwest and West from about 1916 to 1970

I finally had the chance to hear Sama Alshaibi speak in late February during a lecture on campus at the University of Arkansas. She was in town for the 2020 State of the Art exhibition opening at Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art & The Momentary. During this episode we talk about Sama's earliest significant memory of photography, the early years of her practice, and take a deep dive into influences surrounding the work.

Episode 8 guest: Lonnie Graham

During this episode we talk about the various stops along the way in Lonnie's distinguished and collaborative career; time spent at the Manchester Craftsmen’s Guild and the original Barnes Foundation, his numerous community projects, also his philosophy on the artist being able to use the community as a palate and how that ties into the role of the modern artist.

Episode seven features a conversation with Houston based artist Jamal Cyrus, and co-host Tay Butler, a graduate assistant with the Center for Photographers of Color and fist year MFA student here at the University of Arkansas. We discuss Jamal's use of photography within his studio practice and his most recent show with Inman Gallery in Houston, Tx titled

'Currents and Currencies' which took place November 8, 2019 – January 11, 2020.

In this episode, I speak with Andrea Morales southern-based documentary photographer working between Memphis, Tennessee & Oxford, Mississippi, where she is currently a producer at the Southern Documentary Project at the University of Mississippi.

She grew up in Miami’s Little Havana and earned a B.S. in journalism from the University of Florida, as well as an M.A. in photography from Ohio University. She is also an MFA candidate in documentary expression at the University of Mississippi’s Center for Study of Southern Culture.

We talk about Andrea's childhood growing up in Miami, both of our times spent at Ohio University, her projects Jemeska’s Story in Glouster, Ohio, and her Roll Down like Water project in Memphis, Tennessee.