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Lorna Simpson @ Brooklyn Museum

Brooklyn-Based Artist and Photographer Lorna Simpson to Have Solo Exhibition at Brooklyn Museum
Opening Reception Thursday, January 27, 7 to 8:30 p.m.
Lorna Simpson: Gathered presents photographic and other works that explore the artist’s interest in the interplay between fact and fiction, identity, and history. Through works that incorporate hundreds of original and found vintage photographs of [...]

Progeny Two: Deb Willis & Hank Willis Thomas + Fo Wilson & Dayo @ The Light Factory

Progeny Two: Deb Willis & Hank Willis Thomas + Fo Wilson & DayoOctober 8, 2010 – January 23, 2011
Opening Friday October 8, 2010
6pm-8pm
Gantt Center for African Americam Arts + Culture
Deborah Willis and Hank Willis Thomas – mother and son – collaborate with Fo Wilson and her son Dayo Harewood for Progeny Two which opens to [...]

UPDATED: Bayete Ross Smith solo show opens in Birmingham

Here’s a review of the show: http://blog.al.com/scenesource/2010/09/in_our_kind_of_people_photogra.html

I just wanted to send out another invitation to my new solo exhibition opening Friday Sept. 10th in Birmingham, AL.
If you are in the area or have friends or colleagues in the area please stop by. I will be in Birmingham for the next week for activities related to [...]

Right to Return In the NO today & tomorrow

Right to Return
L9 CENTER FOR THE ARTS PRESENTS THE ANNUAL KATRINA CELEBRATION
New Orleans, LA
Saturday August 28, 2010
5pm-9pm
Sunday August 29, 2010
11am-6pm
539 Caffin Avenue
The Lower Ninth Ward, 70117
L9 Center for the Arts recognizes the determined residents in our community who continue to persevere in this struggle to return to New Orleans. For the past five years Keith Calhoun [...]

Laundromat Project Opening Tonight!

Join us TONIGHT for the opening reception of The Laundromat Project’s 2009 Create Change Public Artist Residency Program exhibition at SUPERFRONT Gallery, 1432 Atlantic Avenue, Brooklyn, NY, 11216, 6pm – 9pm
(Brooklyn, NY) – For the last six months participants in The Laundromat Project’s2009 Create Change Public Artist Residency Program have leveraged the space of local [...]

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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 8, 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 8, 2012
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    • Mambu Badu’s Inaugural Magazine February 8, 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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