Bios

Dave Anderson (born in East Lansing, Michigan, 1970) has been recognized as “one of the shooting stars of the American photo scene” by Germany’s fotoMAGAZIN and named a “Rising Star” by Photo District News. A multitalented image-maker, Dave worked in the Clinton White House and at MTV before discovering photography. His acclaimed first project, Rough Beauty, was the winner of Center’s 2005 National Project Competition and was published with an essay by Anne Wilkes Tucker. The New Yorker’sVince Aletti has called Anderson’s work “as clear-eyed and unsentimental as it is soulful and sympathetic.” His photographs have been featured in magazines from Esquire to Stern,and can be found in the collections of prominent museums, including the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; Ogden Museum of Southern Art, New Orleans; Musée de la Photographie, Charleroi, Belgium; and Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. As a filmmaker, Anderson’s original video series, SoLost, shot for the Oxford American, was recently named a finalist at the 2010 National Magazine Awards. Anderson lives in Little Rock, Arkansas.

Chris Rose (essay) is an acclaimed New Orleans writer whose harrowing and poignant essays following Katrina were collected in his much lauded book, 1 Dead in Attic (2005). Called the “Crescent City’s Bard” by the Huffington Post, Rose is an essayist for the Newshour with Jim Lehrer, a frequent commentator for National Public Radio’s Morning Edition, and a longtime columnist for the Times-Picayune newspaper in New Orleans, where he was awarded a share in the staff’s Pulitzer Prize for Public Service. Rose currently writes for the Gambit weekly newspaper and appears regularly on Fox 8 New Orleans.