Episode 116: KTCO Book Club - Human Archipelago (with David Naimon)

Keep the Channel Open

In the inaugural KTCO Book Club episode I’m joined by writer and podcaster David Naimon, host of the literary podcast Between the Covers. For our conversation, David selected Teju Cole and Fazal Sheikh’s hybrid photo/prose book Human Archipelago. In their collaboration, Cole’s writing and Sheikh’s images support each other in a way that expands the form of the traditional photobook and provides a potent exploration of human migration, national boundaries, imperialism, the connections between people, and our responsibilities to one another.

(Recorded September 2, 2020.)

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Show Notes:

• Teju Cole & Fazal Sheikh - Human Archipelago
• Between the Covers
• Between the Covers Patreon
• Teju Cole
• Fazal Sheikh
• Keep the Channel Open - Episode 114: Jessica Eaton
• Keep the Channel Open - Episode 103: Philipp Scholz Rittermann
• Keep the Channel Open - Episode 80: Jerry Takigawa
• Keep the Channel Open - Episode 81: Mike Sakasegawa
• Teju Cole - On Photography (New York Times Magazine column)
• Steidl Verlag
• Teju Cole - “A Too-Perfect Picture”
• Between the Covers - Philip Metres : Shrapnel Maps
• Sharon Mizota - “Review: ‘Human Archipelago’ shines light on refugees and our shared humanity”
• The Family of Man
• Tanvi Misra - “A New Way of Seeing the Global Migration Crisis”
• Farm Security Administration/Office of War Information Black-and-White Negatives
• Walker Evans
• Dorothea Lange
• Keep the Channel Open - Episode 77: Brandon Thibodeaux
• Teju Cole - Open City
• Between the Covers - Molly Crabapple : Brothers of the Gun — A Memoir of the Syrian War
• Between the Covers - Joe Sacco : Paying the Land

Transcript Episode Credits

• Editing/Mixing: Mike Sakasegawa
• Music: Podington Bear
• Transcription: Shea Aguinaldo