Many of Myra Greene’s projects include photography, printmaking, sound, as well as digital production work. She melds these processes into exploring issues about the body, memory, the absorption of culture and the ever shifting identity of African Americans.
She has been an Artist in Residence at Light Work in Syracuse and the Center of Photography at Woodstock. Her work was recently included in “Double Exposure: African Americans Before and Behind the Camera,” at the Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art in Hartford, Connecticut.
Myra is currently an Assistant Professor in the Photography Department at Columbia College Chicago.
Danielle Scruggs was born and raised in Chicago, Illinois, where her father introduced her to photography by showing her how to use his Pentax K1000 camera when she was 7. Eventually he let her permanently borrow it for her pursuits. (That’s her story and she’s sticking to it.) She is a graduate of Howard University and Maryland Institute College of Art. She muses about photography and life at daniellescruggs.blogspot.com.
Dana Nzingha Tomlinson received a BS from Howard University and MFA from School of Visual Arts. She is a documentary photographer and filmmaker, whose film The Ancestors Walk with Us: Our History (Re)Membered (a work in progress), has been featured in the 2006 Harlem Film Festival. The juggling of both her passion for Black art and her work with at-risk Black youth continues to bring her face to face with her personal conflict: how does a young woman who is committed to the upliftment of her community grapple with her generation’s seemingly rampant materialism, misogyny, and blatant disregard of responsibility to the community? In her artistic efforts (photography, film and writing) she struggles with the question: “How do I express a dissenting voice without alienating the very community I wish to dialogue with?”
Her mishaps, musings and memoir can be read at www.zingha.wordpress.com
Writer, editor, and photographer Carla Williams is the founder of 81 Press. Williams has been involved professionally with photography and publishing for more than fifteen years, although her love of photography in books began much earlier at her second-ever job in the art library as an undergraduate. She later worked at the J. Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles, where as a lowly intern she got her start editing footnotes for publications in the Department of Photographs (they were invariably all wrong!) and eventually became a writer about its collections.
Williams is co-author of two books on photography: The Black Female Body: A Photographic History with Deborah Willis, and Photography from 1839 to Today, George Eastman House, Rochester New York; as well as two children’s books and numerous published articles and essays. She is the recipient of a Rockefeller Foundation fellowship at Stanford University and is a graduate of Princeton University and the University of New Mexico.
As editor since 2005 of exposure, the biannual Journal of the Society for Photographic Education, Williams has published a diverse group of artists and writers including Stephanie Lindsey, Lisa Henry, Stephen Marc, Bridget Cooks, Myra Greene, Deborah Willis, Zoe Strauss, Sheila Pree Bright, Sunil Gupta, Clarissa Sligh, Zanele Muholi, Hanif O’Neil, Cicely Sweed, Kalia Brooks, Bayeté Ross Smith, Jené Watson Aifah, Jordana Moore Saggese, Ifétayo Abdus-Salam, Petrushka Bazin, Benjamin Sloat, Lonnie Graham, Jesus Aguilar, Deirdre Visser, Kristine Maitland, Roshini Kempadoo, Mark Sealy, and Clare Charles Cornell.
Williams’ writings and images can be found on her website at http://www.carlagirl.net, which she launched in 1999.
