JEAN PAUL BOURDIER

Jean-Paul Bourdier is the author of Leap Into the Blue, 2013 ; Bodyscapes , 2007(introduction and DVD by Trinh T. Minh-Ha); co-author with Trinh T. Minh-Ha of Vernacular Architecture of West Africa, 2011; Habiter un monde, 2005; Drawn from African Dwellings, 1996 and African Spaces, 1985. Production designer of seven films and co-director of two films directed by Trinh T. Minh-ha.
Awards include Guggenheim, American Council of Learned Societies, NEA, Graham, UC President's Humanities, and Getty. 
Currently working on a Land Art book, several photography books and a book of paintings.
He is Professor of Architecture, photography and Visual Studies at UC Berkeley.