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Saturday, MARCH 1st – 5:30-7pm

Join us for an artist talk with Myra Greene & Sama Alshaibi
Free and opento the public!
WHERE:Peer Gallery526 West 26th Street, #209New York, NYwww.peergallery.com
Nueva Luz will be available for signing
Photo: Myra Greene
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Monday, MARCH 3rd, 6-8:00pm
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Video: Comcast tries to buy our silence

SavetheInternet.com just caught Comcast Corp. stacking a FCC hearing with paid (and apparently sleepy) seat-fillers.
The hearing was set up to investigate Comcast’s recent blocking of the Internet. But Comcast packed the room so that the public couldn’t get in to voice [...]

UPDATED: Swann Galleries African-American Fine Art auction

ANOTHER RECORD-SETTING AUCTION OF AFRICAN-AMERICAN FINE ART ATSWANN GALLERIES ON FEBRUARY 19
Artist Records Set for Aaron Douglas, Elizabeth Catlett, Beauford Delaney, Hale Woodruff andOther Well-Known Artists
New York—Swann Galleries’ third auction of African-American Fine Art on February 19 was their largest and highest-grossing sale of that category to date, bringing in more than $2.7 million. Once [...]

Open Door Contemporary Art Projects,Crossroads in the African and Black Diasporas

ANNIVERSARY ISSUEFebruary 22, 2008www.odcap.com

:::a content-oriented social-networking interactive collaborative site offering a novel approach to accessing art and culture:::
It’s our one-year anniversary this month and in OD-CAP’s effort to explore themes that are valued by our contributors and users, this issue continues to consider works of art [...]

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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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