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Applications for the 2009 William H. Johnson Prize are now available

Applications for the 2009 William H. Johnson Prize are now available online at http://www.whjohnsongrant.org
Please note that the due date for all applications is July 31, 2009, several months earlier than in past years. Applicants are advised to take note of the change so that they do not miss the deadline. The 2009 William H. Johnson [...]

Taylor Wessing Photographic Portrait Prize 2009

2009 EUROPEAN PUBLISHERS AWARD FOR PHOTOGRAPHY

THE ENTRY DETAILS AND ENTRY FORM FOR THE
2009 EUROPEAN PUBLISHERS AWARD FOR PHOTOGRAPHY

ARE NOW AVAILABLE TO DOWNLOAD FROM OUR WEBSITE
www.dewilewispublishing.com

The European Publishers Award for Photography, now in its 16th year, is a major initiative to encourage the publication of contemporary photography.
We are delighted to announce that the 2009 European Publishers Award For Photography will be [...]

Wow

I had never heard of this award, but Tayari Jones and Harryette Mullen received it this year (check out the photos on Tayari’s Flickr page), and Zoe Strauss, Allan Sekula, and Thomas Allen Harris before (to name some favorites).Check it out–it’s an impressive list of recipients in the last three years.

We Are United States Artists [...]

The Blogging Scholarship

Is Your Blog Worthy of a $10,000 Scholarship?
Do you maintain a weblog and attend college? Would you like $10,000 to help pay for books, tuition, or other living costs? If so, read on.
We’re giving away $10,000 this year to a college student who blogs. The Blogging Scholarship is awarded annually.
For more click here: http://www.collegescholarships.org/our-scholarships/blogging.htm (spotted [...]

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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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