1st Edition
Decolonization and Diversity in Contemporary Photography The Dodge & Burn Interviews
Table 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
Biography
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.
“This compilation of interviews, critical essays, and a resource guide is a cherished gift, especially to those long-time fans of the Dodge & Burn photography blog. Readers are left with an intimate understanding of each photo-based artist’s distinct path as practicing image makers, along with narrated insights into their joys and challenges. Mestrich deftly addresses what it means to be a photographer swimming against the currents of the more canonical history of the medium. So too does she demonstrate how a life in photography is as dynamic and nuanced as the diversity of people who embody its range of artistic possibilities.”
- Emilie Chesnutt Boone, Assistant Professor of Art History, New York University
"Equality, diversity and inclusion are on the tip of everyone’s tongue right now and yet we are slow to change. This new book introduces the story behind the Dodge & Burn blog and brings us 35 distinct interviews with contemporary photographers. These are 21st century artists who are determined to give a more balanced view of the world than has gone before in photography. We need texts like these to wake us up, to help create a history for photography by Black, Brown and Indigenous peoples across the globe. Let’s dare to dream, there’s no going back."
- Anna Fox, Professor of Photography, University for the Creative Arts, Farnham
