Nigel Poor
2015 Fellow
Nigel Poor is a San Francisco-based artist and photographer and member of the San Quentin Prison Report collective, which includes members Brian Acey, Greg Eskridge, Jun Hamamoto, David Jassy, Jason Jones, Adnan Khan, Harold Meeks, Tommy Shakur Ross, Louis A. Scott, Shadeed Wallace Stepter and Earlonne Woods. She is a Professor of Photography at California State University, Sacramento.
Her ABOG Fellowship will support The San Quentin Prison Report Radio Project, an ongoing collaboration with incarcerated men at San Quentin State Prison that creates original audio pieces about life inside prison for broadcast on public radio. Participants are trained in all aspects of audio and radio production to produce stories that are complex and challenge reductive stereotypes, while also providing meaningful work for men who are serving life sentences.
Explore SQPR stories via KALW (91.7 FM) San Francisco
Listen to Live @ San Quentin, the first-ever uncensored storytelling event at the prison
Artist portrait by Dante Fontana.
Left to right: JB Burton, Curtis “Wall Street” Carroll, Nigel Poor, Troy Williams, Shadeed Wallace Stepter, and Brian Asey. Photo by Sam Hearne.
Brian Asey with video camera in the San Quentin yard. Photo by Nigel Poor.
Left to right: Jun Hamamoto, Harold Meeks, Shadeed Wallace Stepter, Troy Williams, Nigel Poor, Tommy Shakur Ross, Greg Eskridge, and Brian Asey. Photo by Sam Hearne.
Greg Eskridge in the San Quentin Media Lab. Photo by Nigel Poor.
Earlonne Woods in San Quentin housing unit. Photo by Nigel Poor.
Shadeed Wallace Stepter in the San Quentin Media Lab. Photo by Nigel Poor.
Tommy Shakur Ross in the San Quentin Media Lab. Photo by Nigel Poor.
Curtis “Wall Street” Carroll in San Quentin Media Lab. Photo by Nigel Poor.
Shadeed Wallace Stepter and JB Burton in the San Quentin yard. Photo by Nigel Poor.
Nigel Poor and Tommy Shakur Ross in San Quentin Chapel Garden. Photo by Nigel Poor.
Left to right: Brian Acey, Greg Eskridge, Tommy Shakur Ross and Shadeed Wallace Stepter in the San Quentin Media Lab. Photo by Nigel Poor.