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POSITION ANNOUNCEMENT
Interdisciplinary Artist-Scholar

The Meadows School of the Arts in Dallas, TX invites nominations and applications for an interdisciplinary artist-scholar, whose work involves more than one medium and more than one method of distribution.

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Sara Baartman and the Hottentot Venus: A Ghost Story and a Biography

How exciting–check out Pamela Scully’s new book:
Clifton Crais and Pamela Scully, Sara Baartman and the Hottentot Venus: A Ghost Story and a Biography (Princeton University Press, 2008).
Thanks for letting me know about it, Pamela–it’s already in my cart. Here are some of the positive reviews so far:
“In the very act of demonstrating the impossibility of [...]

Artist-in-Residence Program @ The University of Chicago

Artist-in-Residence Program 2009
The Center for the Study of Race, Politics and Culture invites applications and nominations for its 2009 Artist-in-Residence Program.
The Center for the Study of Race, Politics and Culture (CSRPC) is an interdisciplinary research center that promotes engaged scholarship, debate, teaching, and activism on issues of race and ethnicity at the level of public [...]

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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, [...] […]
    • A New Mission for Aperture? February 7, 2012
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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 […]


  • "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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