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Channel 4 is launching a major new competition for photographers acrossthe UK which we hope will be the beginning of an exciting annualtelevision and on-line event.

THE ONLINE COMPETITION

This summer the UK’s most exciting undiscovered photographers will beinvited to take part in a major new Channel 4 series, competing for afantastic prize. Applicants will be able [...]

Artes Mundi is seeking experienced artists to help deliver its Public Engagement Programme

IntroductionArtes Mundi is a biennial visual art initiative which is international in scope, recognising artists from across the world – artists who contribute in some way to our understanding of humanity. The initiative comprises a shortlist of artists, a major exhibition [...]

Deborah Jack exhibition

Exhibitions: Infinite Island: Contemporary Caribbean Art

August 31, 2007–January 27, 2008 Morris A. and Meyer Schapiro Wing, 4th and 5th Floors, Brooklyn Museum
Infinite Island presents some eighty works made in the last six years that reflect the region’s dynamic mix of cultures, its diasporas, and its socio-political realities, all of which are constantly transforming themselves. The [...]

CALLALOO 30th Anniversary Celebration

Wednesday, October 24 through Saturday, October 27, 2007 Hosted by The Center for Africana Studies Johns Hopkins University (Baltimore, Maryland)

With poetry and fiction readings, lectures, conversations, and panel discussions at Johns Hopkins University, this celebration of Callaloo´s thirty years of continuous publication will bring together a group of the USA´s best creative writers, [...]

2007? You can’t make this stuff up, folks

** Pygmy artists housed in Congo zoo **
A Pan-African music festival is criticized for housing pygmy musicians in a tent in Brazzaville zoo.

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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 7, 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 7, 2012
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    • Mambu Badu’s Inaugural Magazine February 7, 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 […]


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