Ilisa Barbash is Curator of Visual Anthropology at Harvard’s Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology, curating over 20 ethnographic photography exhibitions. With Lucien Castaing-Taylor she co-directed the films In and Out of Africa (1992) – shown at Documenta 14 – and Sweetgrass (2009) – nominated for best documentary by the Independent Spirit Awards, IDA, Gotham Awards, and Cinema Eye. She co-edited The Cinema of Robert Gardner (2007) and To Make Their Own Way in the World: The Enduring Legacy of the Zealy Daguerreotypes (2020) – named best historical (photography) book at Rencontres d’Arles. With Castaing-Taylor she co-wrote Cross-Cultural Filmmaking: A Handbook for Making Documentary and Ethnographic Films and Video (1997.) Barbash’s book Where the Roads All End: Photography and Anthropology in the Kalahari (2016) received the Society for Visual Anthropology’s John Collier Junior Award for visual excellence in the use of still photography.