Uncovering Histories, Crystalizing Memory: Photography and Place Making
Conversation with Katina Alexopulos, Trent Bozeman, and Jamie Robertson
Moderated by Delphine Sims
Tuesday, March 22, 2022
6:00 - 7:30 PM PDT
On March 22nd, SF Camerawork hosted the panel discussion, Uncovering Histories, Crystallizing Memory: Photography and Place Making, featuring three artists from the exhibition FORECAST2021 whose works engage in the investigation of histories of place, Jamie Robertson, Katina Alexopulos, and Trent Bozeman, and is moderated by Delphine Sims, Andrew W. Mellon Fellow, Photographs Department, Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2021-2023 Wyeth Fellow, CASVA, and Ph.D. Candidate, History of Art, University of California, Berkeley, whose research focuses on the ways in which race, gender, geography, and urbanity inform landscape photography.
PANELISTS
Image courtesy of the artist.
ABOUT KATINA ALEXOPULOS
Katina Alexopulos is a film photographer based out of San Francisco CA. Whether she's photographing fashion editorials or documenting the streets, Katina's work focuses on topics pertaining to cultural, social, and personal identity. In 2019 she received a BFA in photography at the Academy of Art University with emphases in commercial photography and documentary film portraiture.
Website: alexopulosphotography.com
Instagram: @kma_photo
Twitter: @kma_photo
Image by Zora J. Murff
ABOUT TRENT BOZEMAN
Trent Bozeman is a lens-based artist from Los Angeles by way of Chicago. Coming from a journalism background, he is interested in how black history is reshaped, documented, and preserved. Combatting the erasure of black legacies and histories has long been a recurring theme in his projects. His current photographic work is based in the Arkansas Delta in the small town of Elaine, Arkansas. His past ongoing work explores Gullah sea islands communities, specifically Wadmalaw Island, where his family is from, and the memories that continue to prolong their cultural significance.
Website: trentbozeman.com
Instagram: @trentbozeman
Image courtesy of the artist.
ABOUT JAMIE ROBERTSON
Jamie Robertson is a visual artist and educator from Houston, Texas. She earned a BA in Art and MFA in Studio Art with a concentration in photography and digital media from the University of Houston. She also holds an MS in Art Therapy from Florida State University. She is a former recipient of the American Art Therapy Association ‘Pearlie Roberson Award’ and Red Bull Arts Microgrant. Robertson is also one half of the podcast, Where I See Me, which examines the presence of Black and Brown people in comics and media.
Website: jamievrobertson.com
Instagram: @hernameis_jamie
MODERATOR
Image by Cassandra Barragan.
ABOUT DELPHINE SIMS
Delphine Sims is a curator, writer, and Ph.D. candidate in the History of Art Department at UC Berkeley. With a focus on the history of photography and Blackness, she has curated and organized public programming for the Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Autograph ABP, and SF Camerawork. In addition to exhibition catalogue contributions, her writing can be found in Matte magazine, The Believer, and Aperture. Currently Delphine is an Andrew W. Mellon predoctoral fellow in the photographs department of the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the 2021-2023 Wyeth Fellow at the Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts.
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