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Check out these two young Los Angeles-based black women photographers.
Glynnis Reed
I have been working in photography and photo based media for over ten years and with digital imaging for about eight years. In my work I explore issues of identity and place and I am interested in the ways social environments shape our notions of [...]

A Knowledge beyond Text. Looking at each other, sharing interrogations14-20 November 2009 – Paris, Musée de l’Homme
Presentation in English / Presentation en français
CALL FOR PAPERS / CONTRIBUTIONS
The Comité du Film Ethnographique is organizing an International seven-days Conference to be held in Paris in November 2009. This Conference is to honor the scientific and [...]

I vote no…

…on this photo series in which Malcolm X’s troubled grandson, Malcolm Shabazz, recreates some of his grandfather’s famous photographs:
http://www.giantmag.com/content.php?cid=1413
What do you think (thanks, Lauren, for the link)? There’s also an interview/article.

Autograph ABP in association with The Centre for the Study of HumanRights at the London School of Economics presents:

DOCUMENTING DISAPPEARANCE:Algeria, state terrorism and the photographic image

Panel discussionThursday 15 May 2008 6.30 – 8.00at the New Theatre, LSE, East Building, Houghton StreetLondon, England

Barkley L. HendricksFind the new video on YouTube

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a9IvTZJj0CA

The Barkley L. Hendricks exhibition and related programs are sponsored in part by the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, Inc., the National Endowment for the Arts, which believes that a great nation deserves great art, the Mary Duke Biddle Foundation and the North Carolina Arts [...]

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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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