Photographers of Color Podcast Aaron Turner

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