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New Exhibition at Kala: Artists’ Annual ExhibitionDecember 13 – February 2, 2008Opening Reception on Thursday, December 13, 6:00 -8:00 pm

Fresh work in a variety of media by Kala’s community of artists! More than fifty artists affiliated with the Kala Art Institute of Berkeley will be exhibiting their work at the Kala Gallery. The Kala Gallery [...]

Art, commerce intersect in two exhibits
By Mark Feeney, Globe Staff | December 12, 2007

Two related photography exhibitions – “Ad/Agency,” which runs at the Photographic Resource Center at Boston University through Jan. 27; and “Cornucopia: Documenting the Land of Plenty,” which runs at the Montserrat College of Art Gallery through Feb. 2 – forthrightly, [...]

Aperture holiday sale ends January 3!

All Aperture books are currently 30% off! Here’s your change to buy one of the only books published by an African American photographer in the last few years. Seriously. And it’s a really terrific book.
Class Pictures Photographs by Dawoud BeyEssays by Jock Reynolds and Taro NettletonInterview [...]

looking for designer for really interesting project

I received this from Cicely Sweed:

Hi,

We were hoping to make a 2007 Launch, but our designer fell through,so ASEstudio is looking for a graphic/web designer who can take ourwebsite to the next level for 2008! Our current website(http://www.asestudio.net/) was designed just this past Spring by agraduating graphic design student at CCA in a class [...]

Nelson Hancock Gallery111 Front St. #204, dumbo – Brooklyn, NY 11201
On the Page, On the Wall: four photographic books displayed
According to Lewis Baltz’s well-known formulation, “It might be more useful, if not necessarily true, to think of photography as a narrow, deep area between the novel and film.” This exhibition at Nelson Hancock Gallery includes [...]

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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, [...] […]
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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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