ABOUT CHRISTIAN K. LEE
Christian K. Lee is a documentary photographer born in Chicago, Illinois. He has a B.S. in Journalism from Southern Illinois University, Edwardsville, and his work has been published in Rolling Stone, The Washington Post, The Guardian, and the National Geographic, among others. An award-winning photographer, his work has been honored by the Sony World Photography Awards, Critical Mass Top 50, Arnold Newman Prize, Royal Photographic Society, and Head On Photo Festival. Lee’s goal is to create Art with the purpose of reflecting the world in which he currently lives. He is currently based in Austin, Texas.

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ABOUT STEPHEN SHAMES

Stephen Shames uses his photography to raise awareness of social issues, with a particular focus on child poverty, solutions to child poverty, and race. He is the author of 14 monographs including Power to the People: The World of the Black Panthers (Abrams); Bronx Boys (University of Texas); Outside the Dream, Pursuing the Dream, The Black Panthers (Aperture); Stephen Shames: Une Retrospective (Maison de la Photographie Robert Doisneu de Gentilly); Free Angela, We Are America, I Like You Too, Some People (Quiddity); Facing Race (Moravian College). Shames’s photographs have been included in exhibitions worldwide, among them Flower of the Word (group), Kunsthalle Wien Austria (2021); London Photo: Black Panther, Steven Kasher Gallery, New York (2020); Hey! What’s Going On?- Black Panther 10-Point Portfolio with Bobby Seale, Fondation Manuel Rivera-Ortiz, Arles, France (2019); Power to the People, Kyotographie International Photo Festival, Kyoto, Japan (2018); Stephen Shames: A Retrospective, La Chambre, Strasbourg, France (2018); Musée Nicéphore-Niépce, Chalon-sur-Saône, France (2017), and Le Centre Culturel Valery-Larbaud, Vichy, France (2017). Shames’s works are in the permanent collections of 32 major museums, including the Museum of Modern Art; Metropolitan Museum; National Portrait Gallery; Smithsonian National Museum of African-American History and Culture, Dolph Briscoe Center for American History, University of Texas, Austin; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. He has received numerous awards including the Kodak Crystal Eagle Award for Impact in Photojournalism, and PBS named Shames, Lewis Hine, and Marion Post-Wolcott as photographers whose work promotes social change. Shames is represented by Galerie Esther Woerdehoff, Paris and Steve Kasher Gallery, New York; and as a photojournalist by Polaris Images. His website can be viewed at https://stephenshames.com/. 

ABOUT DR. TRAVIS L. DIXON

Dr. Travis L. Dixon is a media effects scholar who specializes in investigating the prevalence of stereotypes in the mass media and the impact of stereotypical imagery on audience members.  He has been honored as a faculty fellow with UIUC's Center on Democracy in a Multiracial Society and he was the 2013 Visiting Philanthropy Faculty Scholar at the Clinton School of Public Service. Dr. Dixon has received 7 top paper awards from the National Communication Association and the International Communication Association. He has also received a top article award from the National Communication Association. Dr. Dixon serves on the editorial boards of Communication Research, Howard Journal of Communications, Media Psychology, and the Journal of Broadcasting & Electronic Media. Much of Dr. Dixon's work has been focused on racial stereotyping in television news. His more recent investigations examine the content and effects of stereotypes and counter-stereotypes in major news events, online news, and musical contexts.