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 [...]
81 Press
- PITCH BLACKNESS BY HANK WILLIS THOMAS (APERTURE, 2008) December 8, 2008Pitch Blackness. Hank Willis Thomas, Aperture, October 2008, 128 Pages, ca. 125 four-color images, 8×10 inches (20×25 cm), ISBN: 978-1-59711-072-3, Hardcover, $35 On February 2, 2000, Songha Thomas Willis was shot to death outside a Philadelphia nightclub. He was 27 years old. The takeaway? A $400 gold chain. It’s the story [...]
- Hank Willis Thomas interview December 4, 2008Check out this interview with Hank Willis Thomas in PhotoEye magazine online, http://www.photoeye.com/magazine/features/2008/12_03_Hank_Willis_Thomas.cfm, in which he talks about his monograph Pitch Blackness.
- Obama at #15 November 24, 2008Poli-Book Best Seller List Based on sales for weeks ending Oct. 25 through Nov. 15, 2008 15. Obama, by Deborah Willis and Kevin Merida. (Amistad, $26.95.) Photographs capturing Obama’s 18-month campaign to the presidency. Rankings reflect aggregated sales for the weeks ending October 25 through November 15, 2008 at many thousands of venues where a wide range of [...]
cadre $10 artist grant
- Updates from Simone Leigh November 7, 2008Archeology of Wonder curated by Kristina Newman-Scott REAL ART WAYS October 4, 2008 —January 4, 2009 Opening reception: Saturday, October 4, 2008, 4-7PM Performance by Valerie Garlick, 4:30PM Closing reception: Sunday, January 4, 2009, 3-5PM 56 Arbor St Hartford CT 06106 860 232 1006 www.realartways.org Archaeology of Wonder brings together two disparate approaches to the past - archaeology with its meticulous discipline, and wonder with [...]
- Fall Exhibitions: ?Evocations? at Rose Issa Projects, London? Kala Fellowship Exhibition, Berkeley November 7, 2008I have a few projects coming up to share with you. I will be at Kala’s opening this Thursday, October 9, in Berkeley, and on October 20 at the artist reception for my first exhibition in London. Presented by Rose Issa, I will be exhibiting works from a number of series including The Alphabet of Silence, Most Wanted [...]