new artists, new sites

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 [...]