CAS Graduate Affiliate Jasmine Reid Wins Big in SGS Photo Contest

"Jasmine Reid, an anthropology PhD candidate affiliated with the Center for African Studies, won the grand prize for her image Quarantine Birthday Portrait in Gold. The stunning self-portrait encapsulates the spirit of the past year...

"As a travel photographer, I photograph myself in different settings not only to create a memory but also to reflect back to myself the new things I’ve learned about myself during my travels. A year into quarantine, without any international travel on the books and after a year of increased anti-Blackness, I wanted to take a new kind of portrait,” said Reid.

Reid also took home a prize for her image of a winding road blanketed in fog in Pacifica. The photo was entered into the newly created “hometown love” category, which gave students an opportunity to highlight how they spent their time at home during the COVID-19 lockdown. “This photograph … holds for me both the calm and the anxiety of quarantine isolation,” she said."

-Courtesy of The Dish