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practicing the arts of cogitation since the late 1900s.

Happy Holidays

To all my readers,
I hope life brings you everything you want this holiday season and in the future.
See you in the new year.

Save the date

“BARTHÉLÉMY TOGUO” at ART BASEL MIAMI BEACH

(I was excited to finally pick up one of his publications at the Pompidou Centre bookstore in Paris because they’re so expensive to order online! Sitting here under our first heavy snowfall this year I’d give anything to be headed to Miami for this!)
“BARTHÉLÉMY TOGUO” at ART BASEL MIAMI BEACH
BOOTH G-01
December 2 – 5, 2010
Galerie [...]

Call for Papers

HERMAN C. HUDSON SYMPOSIUM
Submission Deadline: January 12, 2011
“BLACK IS…BLACK AIN’T”: RECONCEPTUALIZING THE AFRICAN DIASPORA
An Interdisciplinary Symposium
Held at Indiana University-Bloomington
MARCH 25-26, 2011
Keynote Speaker: Professor Michele Wallace
The African Diaspora has been historically conceived as originating with the Transatlantic Slave trade. However, some would argue that to perceive the African Diaspora only in relation to slavery is to [...]

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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 […]


  • "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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