RaMell Ross is an artist and liberated documentarian working across photography, film, essay, sculpture and performance. His work, most often situated in and regarding the Black Belt of Alabama, draws on the Epic Banal, strategic ambiguity, the aleatoric, the ready-made, and subjectivities of time. He has been awarded an Aaron Siskind Foundation Individual Photographer’s Fellowship, a USA Artist Fellowship, was a 2022 Solomon Fellow at Harvard University and Stanley Kelley, Jr., Visiting Professor for Distinguished Teaching at Princeton University. His feature experimental documentary Hale County This Morning, This Evening was ranked one of the best documentaries of the 21st century by the International Documentary Association. His narrative feature Nickel Boys was named best film of 2024 by the Atlantic, the New York Times, the New Yorker and Indie Wire. Both films, formally critiquing the camera in American cinema, were nominated for Academy Awards. RaMell holds degrees in Sociology and English from Georgetown University and is an associate professor in Brown University’s Visual Art Department. His work is in various public and private collections such as the Museum for Modern Art, Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Ogden Museum, Victoria and Albert Museum and the High Museum.

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Fresh Air with Tonya Mosley
NY TImes, How Nickel Boys Critiques the Camera, by Doreen St. Fèlix
Hollywood Reporter Directors Round Table
Review of Nickel Boys by David Ehrlich for IndieWire
Oxford America, The Literary Lexicon of RaMell Ross, by Niela Orr
Andrew Witt for American Suburb X
Book review by Pelumi Odubanjo for 1000 Words Magazine
Another Magazine conversation with Adam Murray
Film Comment Podcast with Jason Fox and Milisuthando Bongela
New York Times Opinion by Margaret Renkl
American Crucible of Hale County for Aperture by Rebecca Bengal
Siddhartha Mitter with NY Times on Desire Paths
The Freedom of Fiction, WRG, with Jason Fox
NY Times, Showcasing Diversity of the South
Liberated Documentarian by Richard McCabe in Bitter Southerner
NY Times, But Still it Turns review of ICP show by Paul Graham
New Voices in Southern Photography, TIME Magazine
Aperture, 12 photographers in lockdown, interview by Brendan Embser
Dissent Magazine interview with Max Fraser
In The Atlantic by Samantha N. Sheppard
Criterion Collection, Under the Influence
Daily Show interview with Trevor Noah
Aperture Issue 231: Film & Foto, text by Salamishah Tillet
New Yorker write up by Richard Broody
IndieWire conversation with Chris Falt
Glenn Kelly review at the NY Times
ArtForum review by Nick Pinkerton
Variety's 10 Documentarians to Watch in 2018
Village Voice with Bilge Ebiri
Interview with Eric Hynes at Film Comment
LA Times interview with Tre'vell anderson
Aperture Foundation piece by Taia Kwinter
Nat. Brut interview with Irina Rozovsky
Filmmaker Magazine 2015 25 New Faces of Independent Film