FotoKonbit print campaign
A few months back, I wrote to you about a project I co-founded called FotoKonbit, which engages and empowers Haitians to tell their own stories and document their communities through photography. We produce and teach photography workshops in Haiti and its Diaspora, and we’re launching a print campaign to raise funds for our October workshops, [...]
Texas Southern University murals whitewashed
Texas Southern University has had a couple of important murals removed and whitewashed by the president of the university. Would like your support.
http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/editorial/7195604.html
Facebook protest and awareness page: http://www.facebook.com/pages/Protest-Against-Whitewashing-of-Murals-at-TSU-University/148663918499334
article and those who you can contact.
Texas Southern University Paints Over Famed Murals: Speak Now
http://ernestoaguilar.org/texas-southern-university-paints-famed-murals-speak/
Concerned people are asked to please contact the Governor’s office to express your displeasure [...]
UPDATED: Zoe Strauss’s Gulf Coast photos and update
UPDATE:
I’m going to be working on this project for the rest of July…
http://onthebeach-zs.blogspot.com/
I’m heading to New Orleans Tuesday for a month’s stay; like everyone, I’ve been very aware of the further assault upon the Gulf Coast by the BP oil spill. I got this email yesterday from the fabulous Zoe Strauss, and I wanted to [...]
Tents for Artists in Haiti
(I don’t know if the link below works, but here it is: http://act.pih.org/page/outreach/view/haitiearthquake/jennydubin)
Smithsonian.com’s biggest traffic day ever
Henrietta Lacks’ ‘Immortal’ Cells
http://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/Henrietta-Lacks-Immortal-Cells.html
Since yesterday afternoon, this one story has generated 4 million pageviews and 3 million uniques.
To put that in perspective, the entire site received just over 8 million uniques in all of 2009.
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- Taking a Break February 4, 2012Site 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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- Mambu Badu’s Inaugural Magazine February 4, 2012Danielle 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 […]