Doris Derby - A Civil Rights Journey Peperoni Books

Doris Derby - A Civil Rights Journey Peperoni BooksMACK 2021 A Civil Rights Journey presents the astonishing archive of Dr Doris Derby: photographer, activist, and professor of anthropology. Active throughout the Civil Rights Movements of the mid twentieth century in the southern United States, particularly Mississippi, Derby acted as a photographer, organiser and teacher, making photographs of the intimate and human side of the everyday struggle for survival and human rights. She photographed both

Each of the black and white images painstakingly attend to the road’s surface – the worn road-markings

second printing

A photographer and traveller

Meeks also photographed his partner

they show a fragile reality beyond certainties and often with clear signs of decay

21 x 26 cm

Over the following decade

ISBN: 978-1-907946-58-5

Afghanistan

in order to measure the distance their bodies have traveled’

together with her own photographs — specifically choosing to use images of male figures only

including Yayoi Kusama