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2010 Rotterdam Film Festival
January 23, 2010 -- Fighting with Father, a Sudden Flowers Film directed by my friend Daniel and produced by me is screening at the 2010 Rotterdam Film Festival
Callaloo
Summer 2010 -- Callaloo is a very cool African diaspora literary journal. In a forthcoming issue devoted to Ethiopia and edited by Dagmawi Woubshet, my work with Ethiopian studio photography will be published.
National Public Radio
November 18, 2009 -- My half-hour long interview with Dick Gordon was broadcast on American Public Media's The Story on NPR stations nationwide.
Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University
September 1, 2009 -- I have a show of my photographic collaborations with Salamawit Alemu at CDS' Porch Gallery. I had a long-distance video feed on October 22 as part of this show. Here is a picture of my performance, along with other recent public installations. More soon...
Artadia Awardee
September 1, 2009 - I was selected as one of 7 awardees for Artadia's 2009 Boston award by Peter Eeley, Rita Gonzalez, Sanford Biggers, Randi Hopkins and Dan Cameron.
2009 StepUp Art; Real Art Ways, Hartford Connecticut
July 2, 2009 - I was selected for a solo show at the Real Art Ways gallery in Summer 2010.
2009 Massachusetts Cultural Council Artist Fellowship
June 3, 2009 - I was selected for one of these grants.
2008-2009 Aaron Siskind Foundation Individual Photographer Grant
May 15, 2009 - Juried by Lyle Rexer, Robert Pledge (Contact Press Images) and Mia Fineman, (photography curator, Metropolitan Museum of Art).
2009-2010 Fulbright Fellowship
I was given an award to photograph in Jordan for 7-10 months.
ArteEast
February 2009 - ArteEast is publishing its next issue on the theme of "participation." Along with some really interesting artists, I have an article in it about an Ethiopian girl I've been working with who traveled to Beirut. Here is a link.
History and Theory Conference
November 7, 2008 - This promises to be an interesting panel at Wesleyan University on contemporary documentary practice with David Levi Strauss, Susan Meiselas, Wendy Ewald and me.
New York Times Review
October 15, 2008 - The New York Times reviewed a group show I am in at Wesleyan University with Alfredo Jaar, Emily Jacir, Wendy Ewald, Susan Meiselas and others, curated by Nina Felshin.
Framing and Being Framed
September 13-December 7, 2008 - Zilkha Gallery, Center for the Arts, Wesleyan University
Here is a link.
Foto8
April 3, 2008 - Leo Hsu interviewed me about my work in Ethiopia for this blog.
Cadre Art Grant
October 29, 2007 - cadreart.org
Duke University Panel Discussion on Wendy Ewald's Work
March 19, 2007 - Wendy has always been a mentor, a teacher and now, a collaborator. I am honored to be invited to be on a panel about her work with Phillip Brookman, Richard Powell and Diego Cortez at Duke's John Hope Franklin Center.
International Studies Quarterly
Check out the March 2007 edition of the academic journal International Studies Quarterly to see an analysis of my work with Tenanesh Kifyalew (1992-2004) in Ethiopia by Australian political scientist Roland Bleiker and Amy Kay.