“I wanted to show what I knew to be real because I had experienced it first-hand myself.” – Zun Lee
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Insider/Outsider is a panel discussion that explores a photographer's right and role in producing in-depth reportage within specific communities. Moderated by David Gonzalez of the New York Times, this discussion features photographers who have immersed themselves into issues, cultures, and communities, and documented with sympathy and dignity the stories that brought them there.
Nona Faustine’s series “White Shoes” are nude self-portraits taken in and around the places associated with the 250-year history of slavery in New York City. Recently her work has received worldwide press coverage online and print in publications.
Quito Ziegler has organized a wide range of collaborative interdisciplinary projects in New York City’s queer+trans communities and co-founded the Department of Transformation artist collective and the Minnesota Immigrant Freedom Network, an immigrant rights organization which they co-directed from 2003-2006 while producing large-scale public photography projects on immigration issues.
In “Father Figure,” Zun Lee sought to capture manifestations of Black fatherhood largely ignored by mainstream media, while simultaneously finding redemption for his personal history. His current project, “Fade Resistance,” seeks to restore the narrative impact of thousands of found African American polaroids, and to fill a representational gap in the history of American snapshot photography.
A reception will follow.
Moderator
David González, New York Times
Panelists
- Nona Faustine Simmons
- Quito Ziegler
- Zun Lee
Event Hashtags
#ICPtalks, #ICPalumni
Bios
David González is co-editor of the “Lens” blog and does the biweekly “Side Street” photo-essay feature for the City Room blog. As a long-time member of the metro desk of the New York Times, his work has often focused on the city’s neighborhoods and how they reflect the larger social and cultural issues in American society.
Since arriving at the Times from Newsweek Magazine in 1990, he has been the Bronx Bureau Chief, the About New York columnist and the Central America/Caribbean Bureau Chief. Most recently, he wrote the biweekly “Citywide” feature column, as well as having published a yearlong look at the life of an undocumented family in New York City.
His prizes include a 2008 Distinguished Writing Award from the American Society of Newspaper Editors for “House Afire,” a three-part series on the life of a struggling Pentecostal storefront church. He also was awarded Columbia University’s Mike Berger Award in May 1992 for his coverage of New York City and its neighborhoods.
Before entering journalism, he worked for several non-profit agencies active in New York City’s Latino and African-American communities. He was also the project coordinator at En Foco, a Bronx-based arts group which supports emerging Latino photographers. Mr. Gonzalez was born and raised in the Bronx. He earned a BA in psychology from Yale University and an MS degree in journalism from the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism.
Nona Faustine was born and raised in Brooklyn, NY. She is a graduate of The School of Visual Arts and The International Center of Photography at Bard College MFA program 2013. Her work focuses on history, identity, representation and what it means to be a woman in the 21st century.
Faustine’s "White Shoes" series has received world wide attention, and has been published in a variety of national and international media outlets such as the New York Times, Huffington Post, Hyperallergic, Greybook Magazine, Village Voice, The Guardian, The Brooklyn Rail, Mic.Com, Dodge and Burn Blog among many others. Faustine was selected by writer/curator Charlotte Cotton as a 2014 Honorable Mention in the Baxter St. Camera Club of New York Competition.
Faustine's work has been exhibited at the Schomburg Center for Black Research in Harlem, the International Center of Photography in New York, Mana Contemporary in Jersey City, Studio Museum of Harlem, and Smack Mellon of Brooklyn (2016) where she had her first solo show. Spring of 2016 she will be in a group show at The Art Gallery of the College of Staten Island with Kara Walker called “I can’t breathe”, and “Race and Revolution” (2016) on Governors Island. Faustine’s work is in the permanent collection of the Studio Museum of Harlem.
Quito Ziegler is a Brooklyn-based artist who likes to play with gender, glitter, string, community organizing, crocheted blankets, and their old Nikon camera. Lately they are particularly fond of collective movie-making experiences, playing in their garage studio, and volunteering at Sylvia’s Place, a queer youth shelter in NYC.
They have organized a wide range of collaborative interdisciplinary projects in New York City’s queer+trans communities including the Wrrqshop — a weekly intergenerational queer art salon — and the Queer Planet contingency of the People’s Climate March, hosting an intergenerational storytelling hour about the AIDS crisis, producing a series of performance commissions for a magical garden on the Lower East Side, and installing an art and performance lab in a legendary downtown gallery in conjunction with the MIX Queer Experimental Film Festival. Last year they organized a psychic chamber underground as part of the 2014 Whitney Biennial.
A book of their photographs from Brooklyn’s radical queer/transgender community, recently on view at the Bureau of General Services – Queer Division, will be published in 2017. They are the former producer of the Moving Walls photography exhibition at the Open Society Foundations, where they also curated a permanent collection of human rights photography. They have curated a web gallery on lost transgender history for Visual AIDS, and have been collecting names of queer photographers for a future collective community history of queer NYC.
Quito has been working at the Open Society Foundations on and off since 2001, where they now coordinate global projects that explore the intersection of photography and human rights. They are a co-founder of the Minnesota Immigrant Freedom Network, an immigrant rights organization which they co-directed from 2003–2006 while producing large-scale public photography projects on immigration issues. They are a former board co-chair of NYC’s Jews for Racial and Economic Justice and a current board member of the Third Wave Fund.
In 2008, they received an MFA from the International Center of Photography, where they now serve as faculty. They have been a featured speaker at the Harvard Divinity School and the camera club of Karaganda, Kazakhstan, and many other random and interesting places.
Zun Lee is an award-winning Canadian documentary photographer, physician, and educator. He was born and raised in Germany and has also lived in Atlanta, Philadelphia, and Chicago. He currently resides in Toronto.
Lee has been globally recognized as one of the top emerging visual storytellers to watch. His focus on the importance of quotidian Black life has led to publications in the New York Times, Slate, Wall Street Journal, TIME, The New Yorker, Huffington Post, MSNBC, Washington Post, Forbes, and Hyperallergic.
For his project “Father Figure,” Lee places the topic of black father absence stereotypes into a broader context of pathologized black masculinity. The resulting monograph, produced by acclaimed publisher Ceiba Foto, has won several major international awards. Lee worked on repeated assignments in Ferguson, Missouri in the fall of 2014, where he engaged the local community to produce a more nuanced narrative of resistance. His latest project, “Fade Resistance,” interrogates a gap in the contemporary history of black visual representation through an archive of found Polaroids of African American families. He was awarded a Magnum Foundation Fellowship in 2015.
Lee has shown his work in solo and group exhibits in New York City, Washington DC, Toronto, Paris, Perpignan, Orlando, and Los Angeles. He has spoken publicly at New York University, Nathan Cummings Foundation, University of Chicago, Photoville Brooklyn, Ryerson University, University of Toronto, Annenberg Space for Photography, International Center of Photography, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and Recyclart Brussels.
Selected honors and awards include: Magnum Foundation Fellow (2015), Photo District News Photo Annual Winner (2015), LOOK3 Educator (2015), Paris Photo/Aperture Photobook Awards Shortlist (2014), and Photo District News’ 30 New and Emerging Photographers to Watch (2014).
