Teju Cole (b. 1975) is a photographer, writer, and the author of several books. His photography is in many collections, including the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Qatar Museums. He has been the subject of solo shows at the Fondazione Forma in Milan (2016), the Strauhof in Zu?rich (2018), and the Lannan Foundation in Santa Fe (2018). A noted novelist and essayist, his honours in-clude the PEN/Hemingway Award (2012), the Focus Award for Excellence in Photographic Writing (2016) and a Guggenheim Fellowship (2018). He is currently a professor in the English Department at Harvard University.