Full Circle

Julian Fisher studied with Walker Evans as an American Studies major at Yale University; photographed for the Yale Daily News; and freelanced while at Yale and after for the New York Times, Time, Newsweek, Life, and The Atlantic. He pursued a medical degree at Johns Hopkins, becoming a pediatrician and neurologist on the Harvard Medical School faculty. Dr. Fisher has returned to photojournalism to produce “Trapped in the Middle: The Effect of Income Inequality on the American Middle Class.” He is now completing a second project documenting America’s changing position as a global power, “Faded Glory.” Dr. Fisher lives and works in Brookline, MA.

Pradeep Dalal is a Mumbai-born artist and writer based in New York. His work has been shown at venues like EFA Project Space, New York (2019); Callicoon Fine Arts, New York (2017); and Sala Diaz, San Antonio, Texas (2017). Mr. Dalal’s photographs have been included in publications such as Blind Spot, BOMB, Cabinet, Grey Room, Nueva Luz, and Rethinking Marxism. His artist book “Bhopal, MP” (2017) was excerpted in “Chandigarh Is in India” (2016), and his essay “A Bifocal Frame of Reference” was published in “Western Artists and India: Creative Inspirations in Art and Design” (2013). With Fia Backström, Mr. Dalal co-chaired the Photography Department in the MFA program at Bard College from 2015 to 2020. He has also taught at Pratt Institute, Cooper Union, and the International Center of Photography. Mr. Dalal directs the Andy Warhol Foundation Arts Writers Grant Program in New York.

Santee Smith/Tekaronhiáhkhwa/Picking Up The Sky is a multidisciplinary artist from the Kahnyen’kehàka Nation, Six Nations of the Grand River. She trained at Canada’s National Ballet School and completed Physical Education and Psychology degrees from McMaster University as well as a Dance M.A. from York University. Ms. Smith premiered her inaugural work ”Kaha:wi” in 2004 and later founded Kaha:wi Dance Theatre, which has grown into an internationally renowned company. She is a sought-after teacher and speaker on Indigenous performance and culture. Through embodied storytelling and performance, her work speaks to Indigenous identity and continuance. Ms. Smith is the 19th Chancellor of McMaster University. 

Terry Plater enjoyed a career of over 30 years in higher education that included positions on the faculty and in the administration at the University of Lagos, Nigeria; the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee; and Cornell University. Dr. Plater’s graduate degrees are in architecture (M. Arch., Columbia University) and City and Regional Planning/International Development (MUP, Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania). Painting full time since 2010, she is a contemporary realist whose multi-platform work crosses genres, focusing on questions of equity aesthetics. Dr. Plater is an Ithaca resident.