Shrimp Boat Builder (St. Helena Island, SC), 1987
Gelatin Silver Print
10 1/4 × 10 in. (image size)
The Do Good Fund, Inc., 2016-001

Reverend Ruth at Big Number 5 (Woodville, GA), 1985
Gelatin Silver Print
14 × 14 1/2 in. (image size)
The Do Good Fund, Inc., 2016-002

Swimming Hole, Lumber River (Pembroke, NC), 1988
Gelatin Silver Print
19 1/4 × 13 1/2 in. (image size)
The Do Good Fund, Inc., 2016-003

Roger Manley

Roger Manley (b. 1952) was the director of North Carolina State University’s Gregg Museum of Art & Design from 2010 to 2023. Previously, he worked as a photographer, folklorist, filmmaker, curator, and writer. Highlighted achievements of Manley’s career include founding the triennial META Conferences at Black Mountain College in 1992; curating shows at more than forty other institutions; and authoring numerous award-winning books, catalogues, videos, and films. His feature-length, award winning documentary MANA—beyond belief, premiered at the International Documentary Film Festival (Amsterdam) and Lincoln Center (New York). Manley was a recipient of both the National Endowment for the Arts Artists Fellowship and the National Endowment for the Humanities Scholars Fellowship. Manley is known for documenting “outsider” artists and folk artists as well as indigenous communities with strong ties to their traditional lands, such as Aboriginal Australians, Palestinians, Native Americans, and Gullah Sea Islanders.

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