What triggered the initial idea of this project?  I chose to go to Japan to lose my bearings and come face-to-face with a culture very different from my own. Japanese culture appealed to me: its…

Thank you for joining us today, Melinda. We’re excited to learn more about your remarkable work and the journey that led to it. To start, could you tell us what inspired you to travel to Brantville,…

First of all, tell me how you approached photography. Photography has always been part of my life. My parents had a lot of books of French B&W photographers and I was obsessed with fashion photography.…

Can you tell us about your series  »TULSA, OK »? I’m a visual anthropologist currently living between San Francisco and Paris, and I recently travelled to Tulsa, this mid-size Oklahoma town made famous by Larry Clark…