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Columbia College Chicago alum Jess T. Dugan is an artist whose work explores issues of identity through photography, video and writing. Their work has been widely exhibited and is in the permanent collections of over 50 museums, including the Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery, the International Center of Photography and more. Dugan’s monographs include “Look at me like you love me” (MACK, 2022), “To Survive on This Shore: Photographs and Interviews with Transgender and Gender Nonconforming Older Adults” (Kehrer Verlag, 2018) and “Every Breath We Drew (Daylight Books, 2015).” They were selected by the Obama White House as an LGBT Artist Champion of Change.

Lectures in Photography are co-presented by MoCP and the Photography Department at Columbia College Chicago.