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Anneke Wambaugh is an award-winning photographer and independent scholar with an academic background in African and Afro-Caribbean ritual art. She has done a great deal of research in both Haiti and Cuba. In Seattle, she has variously worked as a teaching assistant at the University of Washington, a researcher and assistant curator of African art at the Seattle Art Museum, a Haitian Creole interpreter, an ESL teacher and advocate for Haitian immigrants resettling in the Seattle area, and a documentary photographer for an ethnomusicologist conducting fieldwork in Zimbabwe. The past six years have largely been devoted to the current project with Claire Garoutte in Cuba. Anneke is the author of Marion Munson, a book about the life and art of a family member suffering from schizophrenia. It was published by Windward Press in Seattle, Washington, in 1990.
Claire Garoutte received her MFA in photography from the University of Washington. She has documented Afro-Cuban religious practices in Cuba since 1994. Claire is currently an Assistant Professor at Seattle University and was the Director of Education at the Photographic Center Northwest from 1998 until 2006. Aside from her on-going photographic projects in Cuba, Claire has photographed extensively in France and was the primary photographer for Seattle based glass artist Dale Chihuly between the years 1990 and 1996. Her work has been published in numerous anthologies and magazines and in 1996 the German publisher, Konkursbuch, released her first book, Matter of Trust.