Photographer, educator, and writer Odette Elix England speaks about her book, Isn't X Beautiful (The Ice Plant) and The Long Shadow: Unwrapped ~ Marion Post Wolcott’s Labor and Love (Libraryman)

Photographer, educator, and writer Odette Elix England speaks about her latest book, Isn't X Beautiful (The Ice Plant) as well as, The Long Shadow: Unwrapped ~ Marion Post Wolcott’s Labor and Love (Libraryman), and to be developed, to be continued (Tall Poppy Press).https://www.odetteengland.comhttps://theiceplant.cc/product/isnt-x-beautiful/This podcast is sponsored by the Charcoal Book Club - Begin Building your dream photobook library today at:https://charcoalbookclub.comOdette Elix England is a photographer, writer, avid reader, and educator. A 2022 John Simon Guggenheim Foundation Fellow, her artistic and research work explores the rituals of loving and leaving.She has exhibited her work in over 120 museums and galleries worldwide and has received grants and awards from the Robert Rauschenberg Foundation, the Puffin Foundation, and Anonymous Was a Woman, among others. She has been nominated for the Foam Paul Huf Award (twice) and the Prix Pictet.She has published six award-winning books. Her first photo novella, Isn’t X Beautiful!, is available for preorder here.She is currently working on her second novella, Once I Was A Photograph, and an experimental re-telling of Susan Sontag’s On Photography.Elix England received her Ph.D. in 2018. She now teaches at the Rhode Island School of Design and Brown University.