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Thomas Sayers Ellis is the only person to ever have a exhibition of GoGo Related Photographs, "(Un)Lock It: The Percussive People in the Pocket." He recently completed an artist's residency at Project Row Houses in Houston, Texas, where he made images of regular Self Defense and exhibited them in Houston's historic Third Ward.  One of his photographs was included in "DC As I See It," a juried exhibition at the Leica Gallery Store in Washington, D.C. and photographs by him appear on the current issue of Prairies Schooner and on the cover of Grass Roots, a jazz CD.  The Massachusetts Review is publishing "So A'Feared Of" See Also, a series of his photographs in its summer issue as well as a cover photograph taken by him.

 

 

His recent poetry collection, Skin, Inc: Identity Repair Poems, will appear in August in paperback. He performed lyric prose from Crank Shaped Notes, a recently completed manuscript, with the eclectic, NYC Arkestra, Burnt Sugar at the Lincoln Center and the Kennedy Center.

 

 

He currently lives in Brooklyn, NY and spends his summers in Washington, D.C. where he is working on a book of photographs titled The Go-Go Book: People in the Pocket in Washington, D.C.

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