Nigel Poor

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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. [3]

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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. [1]

Career

Poor began volunteering at San Quentin State Prison in 2011 as a photography teacher with the Prison University Project. [4] [5] [6] From her work in photography came the idea for The San Quentin Prison Report Radio Project, [7] the precursor to Ear Hustle.

She is a Professor of Photography at California State University, Sacramento. [4] [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] [3]

Poor and her co-hosts were nominated for a Pulitzer Prize in 2020 for Season 4 of Ear Hustle. [1] [10]

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References

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