Keris Salmon currently lives and works in Brooklyn NY. Trained as a journalist and after a career in documentary filmmaking, she recently turned to story telling through the combination of words and still imagery. As an African-American woman married to a white man – descendant of the family that owned the largest American tobacco plantation in the ante-bellum south – her most recent work explores family histories and their complex layers of relationships, unveiling the many significant links between black peoples’ past and present. Salmon examines her connection to her own past, her partnership with her husband and ancestors’ ownership of slaves, and her relationship with her children, and a future generation that will continue to grapple with an identity born from a tragic history.