Dear Shirley: A True Story

Dear Shirley is a first-person saga of love and loss captured over more than four decades. The photographs and text contained in this diaristic account take an unflinching look at the dissolution of two marriages: Schuman’s marriage of 10 years to Jeremy, and of 27 years to Susan.

Hinda Schuman an international award-winning photographer was a staff photographer at the Philadelphia Inquirer for twenty years

Magdelena Sole is an award-winning social documentary photographer who also works on films

Sunil Gupta is a photographer, artist, educator and curator focused on independent photography as a critical practice for documenting race, migration and queer issues.