Society For Photographic Education - Critical Distance

CRITICAL DISTANCE Experts say it takes twenty years to lend honest reflection on major life and global events; taking critical distance to look back at what holds new relevance now. Over the past few years the effects of multiple pandemics have become glaring. Inequities have been overlooked, consciously and out of convenience, but over time they become unavoidable. These events are not contained within our national borders. The current pandemic is a reminder that health is interconnected. The political consequences of the past 20 years echoes across the globe and we recognize the need to evaluate the insights of photographers outside of the US and Western Europe.Simply put, photographers make visual records of these circumstances. The significance of these images may not be fully recognized until a critical distance has passed. This exhibition will facilitate an opportunity for critical distance, from then & now during the FotoFocus 2022 Biennial, World Record. Critical Distance is an international juried exhibition that is apart of the FotoFocus 2022 Biennial, World Record. This exhibition will open in October 2022 at 400 W Rich Street in Columbus, OH, USA. We are honored to have and excited to share that Adama Delphine Fawundu as the Critical Distance Juror. Adama Delphine Fawundu is a photographer and visual artist born in Brooklyn, NY. Fawundu co-published the critically acclaimed book, MFON: Women Photographers of the African Diaspora. She is a 2022 Outwin Boochever Portrait Competition finalist. Her awards also include, the Anonymous Was A Woman Award, New York Foundation for The Arts Photography Fellowship (2016) and the Rema Hort Mann Artist Grant (2018) amongst others. She was commissioned by the Park Avenue Armory to participate in the 100 Years|100 Women Project/The Women's Suffrage NYC Centennial Consortium (2019-2021). Her works are in the permanent collections of the Brooklyn Museum of Art, Brooklyn, NY; Princeton University Museum, Princeton, NJ; Bryn Mawr College, Bryn Mawr, PA; The Petrucci Family Foundation of African American Art, Asbury, NJ; The Brooklyn Historical Society, Brooklyn, NY; Norton Museum of Art, Palm Springs, FL; The David C. Driskell Art Collection, College Park, MD; and number of private collections. She is an Assistant Professor of Visual Arts at Columbia University.