University Open Air: Power & Photography
Let's discuss photography's less known history of violence, which persists in subtle forms today. Some photographic practices are still based on power (colonial, and more). Content over consent unwittingly turns the “subject” into an object of consumption. With iconic examples, we will think of ways we can make a photograph through collaboration and (self)exploration.
Nadia Bongo is a teaching artist and translator with a PhD in French Language and Literature. She has earned a Brooklyn Poets Fellowship. Her writing or photographs have appeared in Solstice, Litro online, Taos journal of Poetry, African Voices, The Citron Review, Blue Mesa Review, and elsewhere. In 2023, Nadia co-directed an experimental short film, Wandering In Beauty, supported by the University Open Air program presented by BPL. Find her at https://www.nadiabongo.com/
University Open Air is generously supported by The Morris & Alma Schapiro Fund.
