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Last week I had the honor to be interviewed for this forthcoming documentary by filmmaker Thomas Allen Harris. Check out the trailer link below.

Through a Lens Darkly:
Black [...]

Dossier de Presse / Press kit

© Samuel Fosso “African Spirits”Courtesy jean marc patras / galerie

African SpiritsSamuel Fosso

DOSSIER DE PRESSE / PRESS KITBilingue French / English

Contact Presse :Albane ChampeyClaudine Colin Communication28 rue de Sévigné, 75004 Paris

Contact Galerie + images request :Romaric Tisserand8, rue Sainte Anastase, 75003 Paris

info@jeanmarcpatras.com

Attached please find the invite for Laylah Amatullah Barrayn’s next group show, Positivity, curated by Jamel Shabazz. (Stay tuned for Barrayn’s upcoming solo show, Kindred Cool, opening August 3rd at MoCADA)
POSITIVITY: A collective photography exhibition curated by Jamel Shabazz that explores photography beyond its subject matter highlighting the POSITIVITY represented in the definite moment when [...]

A series of events will mark the opening of “Double Exposure: African Americans Before and Behind the Camera” at MoAD.
As a quick reminder, there are three events:
The members-only preview on Wednesday, June 18th from 6-8 pm
the Public Opening, and Artist Party on Friday June 20th from 7pm to midnight
and the Curator Walk/Artist Panel* on Sunday, [...]

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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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      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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      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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