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Leslie Hewitt and Hank Willis Thomas tomorrow at MoMA

The Friends of Education of The Museum of Modern Art presentConversations: Among Friendsfeaturing artists Leslie Hewitt and Hank Willis Thomaswith Eva Respini, Associate Curator, Department of Photography at MoMATuesday, November 30, 20107:00 p.m. Program | 8:15 p.m. ReceptionDoors open at 6:45 p.m.Theater 2 (The Roy and Niuta Titus Theater 2)The Museum of Modern Art11 West [...]

Save the date & see you there!

Paris Photo 2011: from Bamako to Cape Town, African photography From 17th to 20th November 2011, Paris Photo will be back on the road to discovery, heading to the African continent to highlight talents from Bamako to Cape Town. Six platforms will be created to spotlight the diversity of both historical and contemporary creativity in sub-Saharan Africa. Paris Photo will [...]

Colored Frames

A look back at the last fifty years in African American art, Colored Frames is an unflinching documentary exploration of influences, inspirations and experiences of black artists. Beginning at the height of the Civil Rights Era and leading up to the present, it is a naked and truthful look and exhibition at often ignored artists [...]

Joy Gregory: Lost Languages and Other Voices

Lost Languages and other voices
Joy Gregory
24th Nov – 19th Feb 2011
Impressions GalleryCentenary SquareBradford, EnglandBD1 1SD

Lost Languages and other voices is the first major retrospective of work by Joy Gregory, one of the most significant artists to emerge from the Black British photography movement of the 1980s.

Spanning twenty years the exhibition brings together [...]

Seachange in Riverside (CA)

  • 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 23, 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 23, 2012
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    • Mambu Badu’s Inaugural Magazine February 23, 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 […]


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