"Tiana Markova-Gold with Sarah Dohrmann: Scènes et Types" A Conversation
Baxter Street/ the Camera Club of NY
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As part of the CCNY Conversation Series, photographer Tiana Markova-Gold and writer Sarah Dohrmann will present their long-term collaborative project, Scènes et Types, about women and prostitution in Morocco. The presentation will include a reading and slideshow followed by a Q&A session with the artists. The event will be co-sponsored by the New York Foundation for the Arts (NYFA), which awarded Markova-Gold an artist fellowship in photography in 2010, and Dohrmann a fellowship in the category of nonfiction literature in 2009.
In 2010, the Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University awarded the twentieth Dorothea Lange-Paul Taylor Prize to photographer Tiana Markova-Gold and writer Sarah Dohrmann to produce their project, Scènes et Types, about prostitution and the marginalization of women in Morocco. The pair spent three and a half months in the spring of 2011 in Morocco, documenting the lives of sex workers to explore the complex nature of the choices Moroccan women face.
They approached the project with the express intent to “dismantle preconceived notions of the prostitute as sexual deviant,” an idea that Markova-Gold has explored in earlier projects on her own in the United States and Macedonia. Dohrmann had previously lived in Morocco on a Fulbright fellowship, where she learned Moroccan Arabic and began to write about her associations and friendships with female Moroccan sex workers, and to interview various Moroccan stakeholders on the question of women and sexuality in Morocco. Their method is collaborative and unconventional, pairing Markova-Gold’s photographs and collages with Dohrmann’s literary narrative style.
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April 24, 2013 from 19:00 to 21:00