Nigel Poor Explained

Nigel Poor is an artist and cofounder and co-host of the podcast Ear Hustle.[1] [2] She is co-author of the book This Is Ear Hustle: Unflinching Stories of Everyday Prison Life. She lives in the San Francisco Bay area.

Early life and education

Poor grew up near Boston.[3] She has a B.A. in Photography and Literature from Bennington College in Vermont, and an M.F.A in Photography from Massachusetts College of Art.

Career

Poor began volunteering at San Quentin State Prison in 2011 as a photography teacher with the Prison University Project.[4] [5] From her work in photography came the idea for The San Quentin Prison Report Radio Project,[6] the precursor to Ear Hustle.

She is a Professor of Photography at California State University, Sacramento.[7] [8]

Poor's photography has been exhibited locally, nationally, and internationally. She created a series of photographs based on an archive of photos from San Quentin, in which incarcerated men annotated the photographs with their own impressions and context.[9]

Poor and her co-hosts were nominated for a Pulitzer Prize in 2020 for Season 4 of Ear Hustle.[10]

External links

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Finalist: Nigel Poor, Earlonne Woods and Rahsaan Thomas . Oct 8, 2024 . The Pulitzer Prizes.
  2. Web site: 2024-05-10 . Earlonne Woods and Nigel Poor on The Great Discontent (TGD) . 2024-10-09 . The Great Discontent (TGD) . en-US.
  3. Web site: Nigel Poor . 2024-10-08 . Photograph . en-US.
  4. Web site: Nigel Poor Penguin Random House . 2024-10-08 . PenguinRandomhouse.com . en-US.
  5. Web site: Rachel Kushner in Conversation with Nigel Poor and Earlonne Woods . 2024-10-08 . Aperture . en-US.
  6. Web site: Nigel Poor . 2024-10-08 . A Blade of Grass . en-US.
  7. Web site: Photography < Sacramento State . 2024-10-08 . catalog.csus.edu.
  8. Web site: Gobir . Nimah . 2021-10-26 . Listening to learn: Why 'Ear Hustle' stories about prison life are so engaging to students KQED . 2024-10-08 . www.kqed.org . en.
  9. Web site: 2021-01-13 . Nigel Poor Tell Them We Were Here Documentary Film . 2024-10-08 . en-US.
  10. Web site: Thomas . Rahsaan "New York" . 2022-02-16 . The creators of 'Ear Hustle': 'We were just trying to tell stories' . 2024-10-08 . Current . en-US.

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