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practicing the arts of cogitation since the late 1900s.

Blogalicious

(Okay, this looks like a lot of fun—I wish I were going!)
The Social Gathering Celebrating Diversity in the Blogosphere
You’ve been asking for it and now it’s here! In its inaugural year, BLOGALICIOUS 2009 will provide an amazing opportunity for women bloggers to come together to celebrate their diversity and their love for blogging.
For three days, black, white, [...]

Funding for Independent Research

The Peter E. Palmquist Memorial Fund for Historical Photographic Research is now accepting grant applications. The application is at www.hafoundation.org. This year’s grant application deadline is Monday, November 2, 2009, and awards range from $400 to $1,000. The Fund supports the study of under-researched women photographers internationally, past and present, and under-researched Western American photographers [...]

Jack T. Franklin 1922 – 2009

Philadelphia Daily News, Posted on Wed, Sep. 23, 2009
Jack T. Franklin, photographer dies at 87
By JOHN F. MORRISON
WHEN MARTIN Luther King Jr. led civil-rights marchers through Alabama’s Jim Crow country, Jack T. Franklin was there.
When King gave his famous “I Have a Dream” speech in Washington, Jack T. Franklin was there.
When Cecil B. Moore stormed [...]

No Money No Problems: A Recession Art Show

No Money No Problems: A Recession Art Show
October 3-10, 2009
Providing exposure for emerging artists and affordable art for collectors, No Money No Problems: A Recession Art Show proves that quality contemporary art can still thrive in an economy where even the cost of a paintbrush is a struggle. No Money No Problems will run October [...]

Brooklyn Influence: A Great Day in Brooklyn

BROOKLYN INFLUENCE:
A Great Day in Brooklyn
On view September 27 – November 7, 2009
Opening Reception: Sunday, September 27, 2009 4:00-6:00PM
“Brooklyn Influence” commemorates the one year anniversary of “A Great Day in Brooklyn” and “Another Great Day in Brooklyn”, organized in June 2008 by Brooklyn-based community arts organization DOPE SWAN. Featuring the work of renowned documentarian Jamel [...]

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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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