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practicing the arts of cogitation since the late 1900s.

Autograph ABP presents Sunil Gupta’s Mr Malhotra’s Party (2007) – new online portfolio !

http://www.autograph-abp.co.ukSunil Gupta (born 1953, New Delhi, India) is an internationally-acclaimed artist, curator, writer and cultural activist. His photographs represent diasporic journeys through the personal and the political – since the early 1980s his work has been exhibited widely, including recent solo shows at the Canadian Museum of Contemporary Photography, Ottawa, Canada (2006), photo-london 2007 and [...]

if you’re in NY

(I once started to listen to him at a conference, and he was such a slow starter that I left, and later everyone raved about how great he’d been, so I’d recommend it!)

Conversations with Contemporary Artists Lectures & Gallery Talks Kerry James Marshall
Friday, September 14, 2007 6:30 p.m.
The Celeste Bartos Theater, mezzanine, [...]

where I’ve been

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WBRC-TV | Birmingham – Real Family Funeral Depicted as MasterCard ‘Priceless’ Ad

From a broadcast on the Fox affiliate in Birmingham: http://www.myfoxal.com/myfox/pages/Home/Detail?contentId=4013025&version=4&locale=EN-US&layoutCode=VSTY&pageId=1.1.1
And Hank’s response in the Sunday, August 12, Birmingham News:
In July, Hank Willis Thomas’ Priceless #1 was installed on an exterior wall of the Birmingham Museum of Art in Birmingham, Alabama. The 2004 work, a recent acquisition by the museum, sparked immediate controversy, chiefly [...]

just because

This is my favorite photo of me, taken on a recent vacation. I just look happy and relaxed, which I was. I usually don’t post photos of myself here (though they’re certainly all over my website), but I just felt like it. And it’s the first time I can remember that I found a hat [...]

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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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