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practicing the arts of cogitation since the late 1900s.

In the spirit of the holidays and the Internet I contemplated posting all the lovely electronic cards that I’ve received from friends but then I thought, no, that’s just stealing from them. But I wanted to acknowledge the holiday season on my blog and the holiday cards that Deirdre and I send are usually humorous [...]

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Bristol-Myers Squibb, the pharmaceutical monolith that charges nearly $1,000 for a 30 day supply of one of its HIV/AIDS medications, is donating $1 to the National AIDS Fund for each person who simply visits their website and “virtually lights a candle.”

https://www.lighttounite.org/

I CAN FIX IT vol. 1!

Your solutions to racism delivered to your email box as promised! Thank you all for your amazing and powerful contributions to a community-created list of things we can all do to help end racism. The suggestions were on-point and often echoed each other, which is quite promising. I compiled your words into a friendly [...]

go orville!

© Orville Robertson

INSIGHTS
with Orville Robertson(Fotophile Magazine)about his own work.
I didn’t get interested in photography until I was in my early 20s My only exposure up until then was taking family snapshots and seeing an occasional photograph at the Brooklyn Museum. Of course, there were also magazines and books. I’m still [...]

for all you mac users

‘Tis the season, and stockings are being stuffed with ipods, and Macs nestled under the tree. But not all is well in Whoville, and there’s a grinch of a surprise inside these Apple gifts: toxic chemicals. And as last year’s gifts are tossed to make way for shiny new Apples, they will likely [...]

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  • 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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