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Call for artists

Looking for a female artist of color that has created work based on issues of sexual molestation within the Black community…specifically the abuse of little black girls. Email info@themckennamuseum.com

Artist news

Veronica Stein has been selected to participate in the 2009 “Chicago Artists Month” through the City of Chicago Department of Cultural Affairs during the month of October. She will be performing “Blak Is Brite; a Performance in Brown.” Venue TBA. Updates to come…

Ayana Vellissia Jackson’s recent work, “Commuter Van’s and No Man’s Land,” reflecting Nairobi’s [...]

news from LaToya Ruby Frazier

Check out a really great recent interview with the Morning News in which Frazier talks about her seven-year collaboration with her Grandma Ruby and Mom in Braddock, PA (a town that was featured in this New York Times article). I’m especially excited to read—obviously—that she’s working on a book and publishers are interested. Somebody certainly [...]

Sheila Pree Bright in Motion

Photographer Kevin Jones sent the link to this interview with Sheila (thanks, Kevin!) for the series Hasselblad in Motion. I know Sheila is shy—she even says so in the video—but the fixed single-camerawork—I wanted to see some close-ups or action shots of Sheila at work! But, really, how great that she’s profiled: http://www.hasselbladusa.com/about-hasselblad/hasselblad-in-motion.aspx

Maroonrebel by Renée Cox–updated (sale)

Maroonrebel is pleased to announce a discount on Maroonrebel t-shirts. Now ONLY $32! We hope the lowered price will make our products more attractive to you.

Click here to order now!
We all have to make our hustle, right, but $50 logo t-shirts? Ordinarily I’m all over artists’ retail products, but in this economy???

Maroonrebel is [...]

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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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