Tamika Galanis

About

Tamika Galanis is a documentarian and multimedia visual artist. A Bahamian native, Galanis’s work examines the complexities of living in a place shrouded in tourism’s ideal during the age of climate concerns. Her photography-based practice includes traditional documentary work and new media abstractions of written, oral, and archival histories. She received an MFA in Experimental and Documentary Studies from Duke University in 2016 and was the inaugural Post-MFA Fellow in the Documentary Arts at the Center for Documentary Studies (CDS) in 2017–18, part of CDS’s Documentary Diversity Project. Galanis is currently the Jon B. Lovelace Fellow for the Study of the Alan Lomax Collection at the Library of Congress, where she is working with the collection’s Bahamian materials.