Biography of marilyn nance
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Marilyn Nance
From 1971 to 1972, she studied journalism at New York University. Upon enrolling at the Pratt Institute, she became increasingly aware of the lack of Black photojournalists working at major news publications.
Biography of marilyn nance
In the following years, she took freelance photographs for the Village Voice. In 1977, while still a student at Pratt, she applied to show her photography at the Second World Black and African Festival of Arts and Culture (FESTAC) in Lagos, Nigeria.
Due to budget cuts, she was unable to present her work and instead traveled to the festival as a photo technician.
At twenty-three years old, Nance documented the month-long FESTAC event through over fifteen hundred images.
She was part of a delegation of over four hundred African Americans who traveled to Lagos together in what she called a “symbolic reversal of the transatlantic slave trade.”[1] She created one of the largest photographic records of the event, studying the celebration of Pan-Africanism and cr