Jean-Paul Bourdier is a Professor Emeritus of Architecture, Photography and Visual Studies at the University of California, Berkeley. His earlier photographic publications include Body Unbound, 2017, Leap into the Blue, 2012; Bodyscapes, 2007; and he has authored books on traditional dwellings In West Africa (Vernacular Architecture of West Africa, 2011; Habiter Un Monde, 2005; Drawn From African Dwellings, 1996; and African Spaces, 1986) written with Trinh T. Minh-ha. He has collaborated on several installations including The Desert is Watching (2003 Kyoto Art Biennale, Japan) and L'Autre Marche (2006 Musee de Quai Branly, Paris). He has helped produce eight feature-length films directed by Trinh T. Minh-ha. He was born and raised in France, taught in Italy and Senegal, and moved to the US where he has also taught in Georgia Institute of Technology, MIT and the University of Oklahoma.
