Teju Cole, photography critic of the New York Times Magazine, will speak at Wake Forest as a part of the Voices of Our Time series.

This event will be held Tuesday, October 30th at 6 p.m. at Porter Byrum Welcome Center. It will be free and open to the public.

Cole has contributed to the New York Times, the New Yorker, Granta, Brink, and many other magazines. His photography column at the New York Times Magazine, “On Photography,” was a finalist for a 2016 National Magazine Award. His most recent book, Blind Spot (June 2017), a genre-crossing work of photography and texts, was shortlisted for the Aperture/Paris Photo Photobook Award and named one of the best books of the year by Time Magazine.

An exhibition of Cole’s work will be displayed in the Hanes Art Gallery beginning October 29th. This exhibition, “Blind Spot,” will be on display through January 30th.