Thrilled to be photographing once again for Teaching Tolerance Magazine put out by the Southern Poverty Law Center. This time I had the opportunity to meet and photograph the incredible @TiyaMiles, Professor of History at Harvard University, MacArthur Foundation Fellow, and award winning writer. Her many books explore the intersections between African American and Indigenous American experiences. Some of them are The Dawn of Detroit: A Chronicle of Slavery and Freedom in the City of Straits, Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, The House on Diamond Hill: A Cherokee Plantation Story, The Cherokee Rose and many more. She was delightful to get to know as she gave of her valuable time so that I could create a few portraits of her for the magazine. https://www.tolerance.org/magazine/spring-2020/teaching-americas-interwoven-histories
I brought lights and spent some time inside in various rooms in her home. But it was too nice to stay in and her beautiful yard had so much light streaming in that we spent some time outside. I felt honored that she chose one of these photographs to add to her collection of images that she will use for her various books, online announcements and requested photographs. I was excited to read her books and ended up bartering the rights on ne of the photos for several of her books. And she signed them all!
And then I happened to be visiting Montgomery, Alabama a few weeks later with my partner Toni Troop. I was able to stop in and meet the photo editor at Teaching Tolerance and see the powerful Museum the the Southern Poverty Law Center created. We also went to the National Memorial for Peace and Justice which opened to the public on April 26, 2018, and is the nation’s first memorial dedicated to the legacy of enslaved people, people terrorized by lynching, racial segregation and Jim Crow.
