Preorder the Dodge & Burn Photography Book with this 20% Discount
Decolonization and Diversity in Contemporary Photography The Dodge & Burn Interviews (Routledge, March 7, 2025) by Qiana Mestrich, Foreword by Carla Williams with contributions by Patricia Silva and Ash Kidd
“This compilation of interviews, critical essays, and a resource guide is a cherished gift, especially to those long-time fans of the Dodge & Burn photography blog. Readers are left with an intimate understanding of each photo-based artist’s distinct path as practicing image makers, along with narrated insights into their joys and challenges. Mestrich deftly addresses what it means to be a photographer swimming against the currents of the more canonical history of the medium. So too does she demonstrate how a life in photography is as dynamic and nuanced as the diversity of people who embody its range of artistic possibilities.”
– Emilie Chesnutt Boone, Assistant Professor of Art History, New York University –
Dear Readers,
The new Dodge & Burn photography book is finally here and available for preorder directly from Routledge (use discount code 25AFLY1* for 20% off, expires June 30th) with books shipping after March 7, 2025.
It’s not the most ideal time to launch anything related to DEI in this country, but this photobook has been years in the making. It is an essential endeavor and tribute to the careers of the 35+ photographers featured. This updated collection of photographer interviews features first-hand accounts from both self-taught and formally-educated photographers across a diversity of ages and photo genres (landscape, portrait, fine art, documentary) as well as cultural backgrounds.
The Dodge & Burn book was always intended to be a textbook, companion to photography history classes, so it’s ideal for university, undergraduate (BA) and graduate (MFA) photo programs everywhere.
Here are early reviews from two academics I admire greatly:
“Equality, diversity and inclusion are on the tip of everyone’s tongue right now and yet we are slow to change. This new book introduces the story behind the Dodge & Burn blog and brings us 35 distinct interviews with contemporary photographers. These are 21st century artists who are determined to give a more balanced view of the world than has gone before in photography. We need texts like these to wake us up, to help create a history for photography by Black, Brown and Indigenous peoples across the globe. Let’s dare to dream, there’s no going back.”
– Anna Fox, Professor of Photography, University for the Creative Arts, Farnham –
Order your copy of Decolonization and Diversity in Contemporary Photography The Dodge & Burn Interviews (Routledge, March 7, 2025) by Qiana Mestrich
282 Pages, 162 Color & 57 B/W Illustrations
Featured interviews with:
Elia Alba, Laylah Amatullah Barrayn, Sheila Pree-Bright, Nakeya Brown, Albert Chong, Neil Chowdhury, Gerald Cyrus, Hernease Davis, Nona Faustine, André França, Lola Flash, Russell Frederick, Myra Greene, Eric J Henderson, Chester Higgins Jr., Janna Ireland, Andre Jackson, Priya Kambli, Marcia Michael, Isabel Löfgren and Patricia Gouvêa, Ayana V Jackson, Carlos Alvarez Montero, Jaime Permuth, Aïda Muluneh, Eileen Perrier, Gabriel Garcia Roman, Justine Reyes, Kalen Roach, Keisha Scarville, Jamel Shabazz, Manjari Sharma, Camille Seaman, Arturo Soto and Kim Weston — plus more artists featured in 7 critical essays that I’ve written in the past decade, republished in the book.
Looking for feedback on your work?
REGISTRATION is now open for the Dodge & Burn Critique Group (virtual/Zoom) hosted CPW Kingston in upstate NY, led by Qiana Mestrich.
First & Third Saturdays, March 1 – June 21, 2025
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