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practicing the arts of cogitation since the late 1900s.

Where do you see yourself by the time you turn 50?

Enter AARP’s U@50 Challenge for a chance to win $5,000.
1) Watch the AARP Uat50 Challenge call-out video.
2) Produce a creative 1-2 minute video describing where you see yourself by the time you turn 50.
3) Go to the U@50 group page by clicking on the website link below.
4) Submit your video!
Deadline for Submissions has been [...]

calling all black photographers even more urgently!

Please take my quick survey BY MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 24*, about publishing:
http://www.zoomerang.com/survey.zgi?p=WEB226WGU59UBE
You can download the results so far here (since they won’t let me save it): publishing.pdf
Thank you!
*That’s how long Zoomerang will allow me to access the results unless I want to pay $600 a year!

Glynnis Reed

If you’re on mySpace, check out Los Angeles photographer Glynnis Reed’s work (yeah, I’m an old-timer–I finally signed up on mySpace just to see her work ’cause I always thought mySpace was for the kids). But as the kids say, don’t sleep on her!
I love this group of images of the signage of small black [...]

beyond belief

I saw this mentioned yesterday on Racialicious, I think, but then found a link to a news story on an amazing blog I discovered today via Afrobella: What About Our Daughters?
In light of the Jena protests yesterday and the general state of our world, it’s definitely important to spend some time @ What About Our [...]

I came across this today looking for something else, so before I forget about it I’ll post it

Black Light White Noise: Sound and Light in Contemporary Art
The Black Light/White Noise: Sound and Light in Contemporary Art, documented the first comprehensive review of contemporary black artists working with sound and light, building on a longstanding tradition of artistic experimentation through the work of 16 diverse artists. The featured artists in the exhibition [...]

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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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