Nigel Poor
{{For|Nigel, bishop of Ely, also known as Nigel Poor|Nigel (bishop of Ely)}}
{{Short description|American photographer and podcaster}}
File:Earlonne Woods and Nigel Poor at Ear Hustle Live 01.png and Nigel Poor in 2023.]]
Nigel Poor is an artist and cofounder and co-host of the podcast Ear Hustle.{{Cite web |title=Finalist: Nigel Poor, Earlonne Woods and Rahsaan Thomas |url=https://www.pulitzer.org/finalists/nigel-poor-earlonne-woods-and-rahsaan-thomas |access-date=Oct 8, 2024 |website=The Pulitzer Prizes}}{{Cite web |date=2024-05-10 |title=Earlonne Woods and Nigel Poor on The Great Discontent (TGD) |url=https://thegreatdiscontent.com/interview/earlonne-woods-nigel-poor/ |access-date=2024-10-09 |website=The Great Discontent (TGD) |language=en-US}} 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.{{Cite web |title=Nigel Poor |url=https://photographmag.com/in-profile/july-august-2019-the-experts/ |access-date=2024-10-08 |website=Photograph |language=en-US}} 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.{{Cite web |title=Nigel Poor {{!}} Penguin Random House |url=https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/authors/2241400/nigel-poor/ |access-date=2024-10-08 |website=PenguinRandomhouse.com |language=en-US |archive-date=2024-10-08 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20241008173214/https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/authors/2241400/nigel-poor/ |url-status=live }}{{Cite web |title=Rachel Kushner in Conversation with Nigel Poor and Earlonne Woods |url=https://aperture.org/events/rachel-kushner-nigel-poor-earlonne-woods/ |access-date=2024-10-08 |website=Aperture |language=en-US |archive-date=2024-10-08 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20241008194316/https://aperture.org/events/rachel-kushner-nigel-poor-earlonne-woods/ |url-status=live }} From her work in photography came the idea for The San Quentin Prison Report Radio Project,{{Cite web |title=Nigel Poor |url=https://abladeofgrass.org/fellows/nigel-poor/ |access-date=2024-10-08 |website=A Blade of Grass |language=en-US}} the precursor to Ear Hustle.
She is a Professor of Photography at California State University, Sacramento.{{Cite web |title=Photography < Sacramento State |url=https://catalog.csus.edu/colleges/arts-letters/design/photography/ |access-date=2024-10-08 |website=catalog.csus.edu |archive-date=2024-10-08 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20241008132454/https://catalog.csus.edu/colleges/arts-letters/design/photography/ |url-status=live }}{{Cite web |last=Gobir |first=Nimah |date=2021-10-26 |title=Listening to learn: Why 'Ear Hustle' stories about prison life are so engaging to students {{!}} KQED |url=https://www.kqed.org/mindshift/58638/listening-to-learn-why-ear-hustle-stories-about-prison-life-is-so-engaging-to-students |access-date=2024-10-08 |website=www.kqed.org |language=en |archive-date=2024-10-08 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20241008194104/https://www.kqed.org/mindshift/58638/listening-to-learn-why-ear-hustle-stories-about-prison-life-is-so-engaging-to-students |url-status=live }}
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.{{Cite web |date=2021-01-13 |title=Nigel Poor {{!}} Tell Them We Were Here Documentary Film |url=https://tellthemwewerehere.com/nigel-poor/ |access-date=2024-10-08 |language=en-US |archive-date=2024-10-08 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20241008173757/https://tellthemwewerehere.com/nigel-poor/ |url-status=live }}
Poor and her co-hosts were nominated for a Pulitzer Prize in 2020 for Season 4 of Ear Hustle.{{Cite web |last=Thomas |first=Rahsaan "New York" |date=2022-02-16 |title=The creators of 'Ear Hustle': 'We were just trying to tell stories' |url=https://current.org/2022/02/the-creators-of-ear-hustle-we-were-just-trying-to-tell-stories/ |access-date=2024-10-08 |website=Current |language=en-US}}
References
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External links
- [https://www.earhustlesq.com/ Ear Hustle website]
- [http://nigelpoor.com/ Nigel Poor's website]
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Category:21st-century American photographers
Category:21st-century American women photographers
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Category:Photographers from California
Category:Photographers from Massachusetts