Notes on Contributors
- Notes on Contributors
Derrick Adams received his MFA from Columbia University and BFA from Pratt Institute, and is a Skowhegan and Marie Walsh Sharpe alumnus, as well as a recipient of a 2009 Louis Comfort Tiffany Award. Exhibition and performance highlights include: Open House: Working in Brooklyn, Brooklyn Museum of Art 2004; Greater New York, MoMA PS1 2005; PERFORMA 05; The Kitchen NYC 2010; The Bearden Project, Studio Museum in Harlem 2011/12; The Channel, BAM Fisher Theater Brooklyn NY 2012; Becoming One With Your Environment, Galerie Anne de Villepoix, Paris 2013; Radical Presence: Black Performance in Contemporary Art, and The Shadows Took Shape, both at the Studio Museum in Harlem, 2013; Once Upon a Time, Salon 94, New York NY, commissioned by the Calder Foundation for PERFORMA 13; and Black in the Abstract, Part 2: Hard Edges/Soft Curves, CAMH (Contemporary Art Museum Houston) 2014.
Bart Babinski is a documentary and fine art photographer living and working in Los Angeles. He is fascinated by and focuses on photographing musicians, artists, and performers. His photographs have won various awards and among his clients is ECM Records. Recently, he has been documenting the unique and remarkable journey of multi-talented pianist and composer Vijay Iyer. Bart studied cinematography with Bogdan Dziworski in Poland and holds a BFA in photography; he further honed his skills as first assistant to renowned photographer Howard Schatz.
jewel bush, a New Orleans native, is an award-winning journalist and writer. Her work has appeared in such newspapers as The Washington Post and The Times-Picayune. She has won numerous awards, including distinctions from the Louisiana Press Association and the New York Times Regional Media Group. bush has participated in VONA/Voices of our Nation and Callaloo Creative Writing Workshop. In 2010, she founded MelaNated Writers Collective, a group for writers of color living in New Orleans. Her short story, “Red Polish,” appears in Dismantle: An Anthology of Writing from the VONA/Voices Writing Workshop. She writes a weekly column for the Internet-based Uptown Messenger. Email: jewel.bush@gmail.com
Christopher Cozier is an artist, curator, and writer living and working in Trinidad. As a visual artist, he works in a variety of media, including drawing, printmaking, sound, and installation. In 2006, he co-founded Alice Yard, a non-profit art organization that continues to have regular exhibitions and performances in Port of Spain. Cozier is also a member of the editorial collective of Small Axe, a Caribbean Journal of Criticism, distributed by Duke University Press. He was an editorial adviser to BOMB Magazine for their Americas issues (Winters, 2003–2005) and was awarded a Pollock-Krasner [End Page 164] Foundation Grant in 2004. In 2013, Cozier was one of eleven international winners of the prestigious Prince Claus Award.
After a stint in structural engineering, Gerhard Gscheidle came to the U.S. to pursue photography and film. His first photographs of SNCC’s activities in Mississippi 1966 appeared in their Bay Area newspaper, The Movement, followed by coverage of the California farm workers’ strike. He continued to document aspects of the civil rights movement, antiwar activities and expression of social/cultural change evident in the San Francisco Bay area. For the 50th anniversary of the San Francisco Mime Troupe in 2009, he curated a mulitmedia exhibition at Yerba Buena Center. Today he lives near his hometown of Stuttgart.
Robin Hammond recently won a World Press Photo Award and a Robert F. Kennedy Journalism Award. In 2013, he won the W. Eugene Smith Award for Humanistic Photography. The recipient of four Amnesty International awards for Human Rights journalism, Robin Hammond has dedicated his career to documenting human rights and development issues around the world through long-term photographic projects. In 2013, Robin won the FotoEvidence book award for documenting social injustice, which resulted in the publication of his project on mental health in Africa, Condemned. In 2011, he won the Carmignac Gestion Photojournalism Award, which allowed him to continue his long-term photo project on life in Zimbabwe under the rule of Robert Mugabe. The work culminated in an exhibition in Paris and the publication of his first book, Your Wounds Will Be Named Silence. In addition...
