Linda Foard Roberts: Lament

Linda Foard Roberts makes work that is deeply personal, rooted in memory, family and local histories, and combined with philosophical inquiries about life, death, and basic human rights. Roberts is a recipient of a 2020 Guggenheim Fellowship in support of her project Lament, a song of sorrow for those not heard. Preferring the imperfections of old lenses and the history inherent within them, her work is metaphorical and layered, intending to cross language and cultural barriers. Posing the environment as a reflection of ourselves, her photographs engage the transformative cycles that shape our lives, bound by time and what it means to be human, a foundation upon which we can all find common ground. Her work has been exhibited across the United States and internationally, at venues in Australia, Guatemala, Argentina, and Germany. She is represented by SOCO Gallery in North Carolina and Sol del RIO in Guatemala. Roberts lives and works in Charlotte, North Carolina.

Michelle Lanier is on the faculty at the Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University. She is the Director of North Carolina's Historic Sites, which is 26 museum spaces, historic structures, and Civil War-era battlefields, former plantation spaces, and an 18th-century gold mine. Her film, Mossville, reveals a global south story of resistance to environmental racism, has been translated into five languages, screened on six continents, and chosen by the United Nations in an effort to raise awareness about the climate crisis and its impact on the lives of people of African descent.

*Additional contributors pending*