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practicing the arts of cogitation since the late 1900s.

magazine girls, part 2

As it turns out, More did give Teruko a solo cover, subscription version only:

They’re both stunning, but I love this one. Congrats, Teruko!!
(Update 5/1/05: I was in Target yesterday and glimpsed a cover of More with no Teruko at all—just the other model. What’s up with that?!?!)

And for those of you posting your congratulations to [...]

magazine girls

So, if it weren’t for the Sistagraphy mailing list I wouldn’t have known about Deb Willis being named one of “the 100 Most Important People in Photography” by American Photo magazine in their May/June 2005 issue (go, Deb!!).

Apparently it has been 7 years since they did one of these roundups. It may as well have [...]

"perpetual digressions of a soul wanderer"

I know I’m supposed to respond to responses, but I forgot to include Tawana, also a blogger (http://nappyscraps.blogspot.com), in my morning shout-outs (I borrow that title from her blog). Thanks for your note! It is young women like you who inspire me.
But let’s talk David LaChapelle (maybe I should be doing this on your blog?!) [...]

blogs and popes

I had a deadline last Friday so I sat down and created this blog. (I have one today so I’m writing the post.) Within the week, An old friend sent me her new blog URL and Delphine Fawundu-Buford, a photographer whose work I love but whom I don’t know also sent me hers (they’re both [...]

what’s new?

9 April 2005
In 2002, when I found out I had gotten a fellowship at Stanford, it seemed my career tide would turn. I had rarely gotten anything I’d applied for before, and this seemed real—it was year-long, it paid, and I’d gotten it as an independent. I quit my job and moved, expecting never to [...]

  • CARLAGIRL PHOTO was founded on 14 February 1999 by Carla Willliams, a photographer, writer, and editor, born, raised and heading back to (yea!) Los Angeles, California.

    It was established with two goals: to be able to make my own work widely available for free, and to make accessible my research about artists of the African Diaspora, especially photographers, and in particular women. As it developed it grew to also include GLBTQ artists.

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    • Taking a Break February 4, 2012
      Site visitors will probably notice that I haven’t updated here frequently. I am taking a break from my site(s) for at least the summer. I’ve been working in this field for 25 years and I’m burned out on photography and art, the site(s) are in need of major updates/ revamping/ retooling, social media is exhausting, [...] […]
    • A New Mission for Aperture? February 4, 2012
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    • Mambu Badu’s Inaugural Magazine February 4, 2012
      Danielle was briefly a contributor to this site; I am very excited to hear about her latest venture, the collective and now journal Mambu Badu “that seek to find, expose, and nurture emerging female photographers of African descent.”  Congrats, Danielle! As you may (or may not) know, last fall, I co-founded Mambu Badu, a photography collective […]


  • "Dedicated to the real photographers of the world—to those who, with their second-hand equipment and their makeshift darkrooms, are today fighting their solitary battles with their recalcitrant medium, not for money or for glory, but because they would rather make pictures than anything else in the world." - William Mortensen
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