Mimi Plumb (Berkeley, CA) has served on the faculties of the San Francisco Art Institute, San Jose State University, Stanford University, and the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. She currently lives in Berkeley, California. Since the 1970s, Plumb has explored subjects ranging from her suburban roots to the United Farm Workers movement in the fields as they organized for union elections. Her first book, Landfall, published by TBW Books in 2018, is a collection of her images from the 1980s, a dreamlike vision of American dystopia encapsulating the anxieties of a world spinning out of balance. Landfall was shortlisted for the Paris Photo/Aperture Foundation First Photobook Award 2019, and the Lucie Photo Book Prize 2019. Her second book, The White Sky, was published by Stanley/Barker  in September, 2020. Plumb received her MFA in photography from SFAI in 1986. Her photographs are in the collection of the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Pier 24, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Daum Museum of Contemporary Art, and the Yale University Art Gallery. She is a 2017 recipient of the John Gutmann Photography Fellowship, and has received grants and fellowships from the California Humanities, the California Arts Council, the James D. Phelan Art Award in Photography, and the Marin Arts Council. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/opencurtain/support

Born and raised in the suburbs of the San Francisco Bay Area, Mimi Plumb has recently released some of the most captivating and important photobooks. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/opencurtain/support

Christopher McCall is the Director of Pier 24 Photography in San Francisco, one of the largest exhibition spaces devoted to photography. In 2002, McCall received his MFA in Photography from California College of the Arts, studying under Jim Goldberg and Larry Sultan. After teaching for 7 years, he joined Pier 24 Photography in 2009 as the inaugural Director, assisting in the conceptualization of the organization’s mission and operating principles. Since opening the doors of Pier 24 in 2010, McCall has overseen the presentation of ten exhibitions and spearheaded the creation of the Larry Sultan Visiting Artist Program, a program in collaboration with California College of the Arts. In 2015 he implemented the Larry Sultan Photography Award in partnership with the Headlands Center for the Arts. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/opencurtain/support

Christopher McCall is the Director of Pier 24 Photography in San Francisco, one of the largest exhibition spaces devoted to photography. In 2002, McCall received his MFA in Photography from California College of the Arts, studying under Jim Goldberg and Larry Sultan. After teaching for 7 years, he joined Pier 24 Photography in 2009 as the inaugural Director, assisting in the conceptualization of the organization’s mission and operating principles. Since opening the doors of Pier 24 in 2010, McCall has overseen the presentation of ten exhibitions and spearheaded the creation of the Larry Sultan Visiting Artist Program, a program in collaboration with California College of the Arts. In 2015 he implemented the Larry Sultan Photography Award in partnership with the Headlands Center for the Arts. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/opencurtain/support

Rahim Fortune (United States) is a documentary and fine art Photographer based between Austin Texas and Brooklyn New York working for clients like New York Times Magazine, TIME, Sony, and Converse. In this episode, Rahim and I discuss how he got into photography, his progression for acquiring major clients, the key components needed to sustain a career in art, and much more. Photo by Miranda Barnes --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/opencurtain/support

Rahim Fortune (TX/NY) is a documentary and fine art Photographer based between Austin Texas and Brooklyn New York working for clients like New York Times Magazine, TIME, Sony, and Converse. Photo by Miranda Barnes --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/opencurtain/support

In Episode 2 I will be speaking with photographer, Eli Durst about his new book, The Community.  Stay tuned for that episode next Friday. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/opencurtain/support

A recent recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship Award, Bryan and I talk about his path from turning his passion in photography into a successful career as well as coping with being kept from making the work he wants to most during these times. We talk about his past projects, music, art, and more. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/opencurtain/support

Janet Delaney (Berkeley, CA) is most known for her first project which documents the 1980s gentrification of a working-class neighborhood in San Francisco. Our discussion will air this Friday at 12 pm. See you then! --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/opencurtain/support

Kennedi Carter (Durham, NC) is a fine art photographer and creative director with a primary focus on Black subjects. Her work highlights the aesthetics & sociopolitical aspects of Blackness as well as the overlooked beauties of the Black experience: skin, texture, trauma, peace, love, and community. Her work aims to reinvent notions of creativity and confidence in the realm of Blackness. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/opencurtain/support