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Born in Washington D.C., United States 1997-98, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 1993, Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley, CA 1986, M.A., UCLA, Los Angeles, CA 1983, M.A., Yale University, New Haven, CT 1983, Certificate, Film Production, New York University, New York, NY 1974, B.A., Antioch College, Yellow Springs, OH |
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"Growing up in Washington D.C. must have colored my photographic vision. My family lived near Embassy Row, and I spent lots of time in the very cosmopolitan, multi-ethnic Adams-Morgan section of town. In my pre-teen years, my stepfather worked at the Russian Embassy, and I remember playing with the newly invented Xerox machines there as guards and workers smiled at me. As a child, I came in frequent contact with people from all over the world. I was fascinated by the plethora of languages, strange, beautiful attire, exotic customs. Unfortunately, I did not travel abroad until after college.
In early adulthood, the political needs of minorities in America commanded my photographic attention. I was one of a wave of American racial minority students who descended on elite, white institutions during the late Civil Rights period. Universities were in an uproar then. Much of my photographic work from the early '70s is 'political' or journalistic in that it shows people actively involved in the struggle for Afro-American independence and Civil Rights for American minorities. My ultimate photographic goal, however, is rooted in my Washington childhood. Back then, ethno-cultural differences were of purely intellectual and aesthetic importance. This exhibit recaptures that childlike naiveté by ignoring political difference and reveling in the breadth of our planet's human cultural variety. I want to celebrate global ethno-cultural difference, even as I encourage inter-ethnic 'hanging out.' "
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