Alanna Airitam is a portrait photographer based in San Diego, CA. In her series "The Golden Age," Alanna makes portraits of African Americans in the style of the Dutch Realism Golden Age of painting, images full of grace and beauty representing black people in a fine art context, a context from which they are all too often excluded. In our conversation we talked about that series, as well as her "Being Heard" project, which began as a response to seeing how different marginalized women were being excluded from the mainstream activist narrative. Then for the second segment, Alanna and I had a wide-ranging conversation about the roots of social injustice in our society.

(Conversation recorded April 10, 2018.)

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Show Notes:

• Alanna Airitam
• Salt and Sugar Productions - Alanna Airitam: From Haarlem to Harlem
• Alanna Airitam - The Golden Age
• Alanna Airitam - Being Heard
• San Diego Art Institute - ABOUT-FACE
• Hamilton
• @medievalpoc on Twitter
• Bioneers
• Kirsten Imani Kasai
• Skyler McCurine

Transcript

Episode Credits

• Editing/Mixing: Mike Sakasegawa
• Music: Podington Bear
• Transcription: Shea Aguinaldo