With a focus on fashion, Marie Audier and The Selects Gallery, New York, fill a unique niche in the world of fine art photography. Her background in commercial fashion and deep understanding of editorial and fine art work makes her the perfect person to address the fashion image. Here she is interviewed by the authors of Twenty One Summers, Thomas Werner and Derrick Connell

Walking into A Gallery for Fine Photography is like walking into a museum. The range and quality of photographs on the walls and in the files is both alluring and overwhelming. It was one of the first photo galleries in the United States, and that has given Josh the opportunity to work with all of the legends in the field. He has a perspective on art and business that few can match.

Due to recording on location the audio for this podcast is only on one channel.

Today I would like to welcome Rosie Kamdem to the podcast. Rosie is friend and a bit of a hero of mine. A mother of 5 she is an award winning women and education rights activist in Cameroon working in the countries major cities and most remote villages, and at times across the African Continent.

She spends her time visiting tribes and villages that can only be reached by hiking into the bush as she teaches women how to make soap and other goods necessary to provide a more safe and sanitary lifestyle while producing income for these small women run businesses. In most villages women have never run a business before. In many of these areas women to not know a word for their private parts, or for menstruation.

Rosie also focuses on the empowerment of women on the nationally, locally, and tribal level where women most often do not have a voice. Helping women and young girls understand that they have options in life that include education, owning a business, having the right to have their voices heard, and that child marriages are not necessary are primary focuses of her work.