Susan Suchman Simone

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Susan Simone is a documentary photographer based in Chapel Hill, NC. Her Meeting Place project is a sponsored project of the Institute for Southern Studies. These images will be the elements of a larger exhibition at the Chapel Hill Town Hall August 27-October 1, 1999. (1999)

Since 1995, Susan Suchman Simone has been documenting the lives and political action of the UNC Housekeepers Association—an organization of housekeeping staff at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. “We Are All Housekeepers” is a photo essay based on images selected from The Meeting Place Project, a photographic and oral history project that records the words and lives of African-American workers in Chapel Hill. As Jeff Jones, a doctoral student in history at UNC, relates in his accompanying historical essay, the conditions and struggle Suchman Simone depicts in the 1990s are deeply reminiscent of the university’s past. (1997)

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