Cultural Lens - Experiences and images from documenting extraordinary moments across the United States and South Africa
Joshua Rashaad McFadden and Matthew Willman co-presentation and conversation.
FIRST 20 STUDENTS GET A SIGNED COPY OF JOSHUA RASHAAD McFADDEN'S BOOK "I BELIEVE I'LL RUN ON"
Matthew Wilman
Matthew Willman is a South African based documentary photographer, author & professional speaker. In 2003 Willman was commissioned to archive and document the life and times of Nelson Mandela for the Nelson Mandela Foundation. Willman’s collection of work is now central to the Mandela Centre of Memory & Presidential Library in Johannesburg. Willman has also had the pleasure of photographing individuals from a cross-section of the global community including former U.S. Presidents Barack Obama & Bill Clinton, seven South African Presidents, Former UN Secretary General Kofi Annan, Archbishop Desmond Tutu, and Annie Lennox.
Joshua Rashaad McFadden
Joshua Rashaad McFadden is a visual artist and assistant professor of photography at Rochester Institute of Technology. His work explores African American male identity, masculinity, notions of the father figure, and the photographic archive. McFadden has won numerous awards and recognitions from LensCulture, IPA, New York Times, Smithsonian Magazine, and more, while being published in The New York Times Lens, New York Times Magazine, Time Magazine, Slate Magazine, Travel + Leisure, Smithsonian Magazine, Vanity Fair, and Financial Times.
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