Issue 158

Photographer’s Green Book: 2022 Traveler’s Residents

We are honored to collaborate with Photographer’s Green Book in Issue 158 to share the personal work of the four artists who are inaugural Photographer’s Green Book Traveler’s Residents. During their residency, each resident creates a resource that is designed to be free to the public and that “[speaks] to radically advancing the conversation of diversity and equity within the photographic medium.” We’re looking forward to showcasing these projects over the next few months. In this issue, however, we introduce you to the four artists through their own work. Check back in the coming months to learn about the resources they created!

Bree Lamb and Leo Hsu
Managing Editors

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From Photographer’s Green Book:

Since its advent, The Photographer’s Green Book has prided itself on being a hub for resources created and contributed to by a diverse group of artists and scholars concerned with improving inclusion, diversity, equity, and advocacy in lens-based art. So, in the spring of 2021 when our friend and now Director of Education, Zora J Murff proposed the idea of doing a print sale and donating the funds raised to The Photographer’s Green Book it seemed like the perfect opportunity to compensate individuals for creating new resources to support our mission. 

We were honored to welcome Lee Chang Ming, Alanna Steyer, Daniel Mebarek, and Taelor Olivia Scott to work with our team to create their respective resources this year as our first cohort of residents. They are each amazing thinkers and community members but as you will see through this publication they are also incredible practicing artists.

It is because we love our craft and our communities that we commit ourselves to institutional critique and reform. We are so grateful to Fraction for providing a space for our residents to share their craft while we continue to roll out the resident’s respective resources.

Jay Simple and Sydney Ellison

Jay Simple (he/him) and Sydney Ellison (she/her)  live and work in Charlottesville, Virginia and Brooklyn, NY.  In 2020 Jay Simple founded The Photographer’s Green Book which began as an online listing of organizations that promoted and supported people of the global majority. Sydney Ellison joined PGB and as Editor-in-Chief has seen the expansion of PGB’s resources and the creation of an annual publication. They are joined in collaboration with Zora J Murff (he/him) as Director of Education and Ally Caple (she/her) as Director of Public Engagement.

www.PhotoGreenBook.com | @PhotoGreenBook

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