About

Teju Cole is a photographer and writer who for over two decades has worked on problems of place, history, and personal freedom. His books—notable among them Open City, Blind Spot, and Fernweh—are published in twenty languages and his photography, widely exhibited, is in the collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Museum of Contemporary Photography, and the Qatar Museums, among others. In 2017, he presented a solo performance at the Performa Biennial in New York City. For his writing and photography, he has been honored with the PEN/Hemingway Award, the Windham-Campbell Prize, the Anisfield-Wolf Award, and a Guggenheim Fellowship, and he has been a finalist for the Paris Photo/Aperture Foundation Photobook Award and the National Book Critics Circle Award (twice). An elected member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters, he lives and works in Massachusetts in the United States.