Colonial Echo: A Photobook Case Study
Online Talk with Rachelle Mozman Solano and Kris Graves
Thursday, October 22, 2020, 7pm EST
Free and open to the public
Registration required

Join Aurora for an online discussion about the making of Colonial Echo by Rachelle Mozman Solano, published September 2020 by Kris Graves Projects. From creative choices to economic necessities, Mozman Solano and Graves will talk about all stages of the project’s development from initial idea to final publication.

To register for the talk and receive a Zoom link, please click here.

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The monograph Colonial Echo brings together two of Mozman’s related bodies of work, Casa de Mujeres and La Negra, as well as interviews. The work is based on her family biography, with Casa de Mujeres focusing on the experience and impact of colonialism in Panama, and La Negra addressing the time when her family migrated first to the American south, and then to New York City in the mid 1960s. Starting often from her biography and family history, Mozman explores how culture shapes individuals and how environment conditions behavior. Her work is concerned with the intersection of mythology, history, economics, and the psyche through photographs and films that confound fact and fictional narrative.

Kris Graves Projects collaborates with artists to create limited edition publications and archival prints, focusing on contemporary photography and works on paper that address issues of race, identity, equity, gender, sexuality, and class.

Rachelle Mozman Solano has been awarded residencies at LMCC workspace, Smack Mellon, The Camera Club of New York, and Light Work, as well as a Fulbright Fellowship. Mozman Solano's work has been reviewed in The New York Times, Artnexus, The Village Voice, and The Wall Street Journal. Her work has been published in Aperture Magazine, Vogue Italia, the Light Work Contact Sheet Annual, Presumed Innocence, Exit magazine and numerous other publications. Mozman has exhibited at El Museo del Barrio, the National Portrait Gallery at Smithsonian Institution, Washington D.C; the Americas Society, New York; National Hispanic Cultural Center, Albuquerque, New Mexico; The Studio Museum in Harlem, New York; and the Chelsea Museum, New York, among other institutions.

Kris Graves is an artist and publisher based in New York and London. He received his BFA in Visual Arts from S.U.N.Y. Purchase College and has been published and exhibited globally, including the National Portrait Gallery in London, England; Aperture Gallery, New York; University of Arizona, Tucson; Blue Sky Gallery in Portland, Oregon; and Brooklyn Museum, New York; among others. Permanent collections include the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; Brooklyn Museum, New York; The Wedge Collection, Toronto; and Bryn Mawr College, Pennsylvania.

Please email any questions you have for the panel to info@auroraphoto.org.

Rachelle Mozman Solano from the series Casa de Mujeres