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Drew Thompson is Associate Professor of Visual Culture and Black Studies at Bard Graduate Center. His teaching, writing, and curatorial practice focus on Black modernism, the history of photography in Africa, and Black American and African material culture. Currently, he is working on the book titled Coloring Black Surveillance: The Story of Polaroid in Africa, the Anti-Apartheid Struggle, and Contemporary Art and curating with Sarah Eckhardt an exhibition on the printmaker Benjamin Wigfall, which is scheduled to open in September 2022 at the Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art before traveling to the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts in April 2023.