Susan Suchman Simone
Photographer

"In 1995 I began two projects, one focusing on the labor struggles of black workers at UNC-Chapel Hill and a second documenting the history of one of the oldest African American neighborhoods in Chapel Hill. With the funds from my Arts Council Fellowship and a grant from the Fund for Southern Communities I will continue to collect, digitize, and restore family photos from African American neighborhoods in Chapel Hill with the objective of producing a book and a teaching CD-rom. I would also like to improve my skills working with digital photography in order to integrate this technology in the work I have already done with photographic composites of silver and color images."

Susan Simone has a B.A. in English Literature from Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, and a Ph.D in Comparative Literature from the University of Iowa, Iowa City. She is an independent consultant for training in technical writing and computer systems analysis. She has also published fiction and essays, and coordinates the Prison Pen Pals for the North Carolina Writers Network. She lives in Chapel Hill, NC.

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