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practicing the arts of cogitation since the late 1900s.

Moveable Feast: Fresh Produce and the NYC Green Cart Program

Moveable Feast: Fresh Produce and the NYC Green Cart ProgramTuesday, March 22, 2011–Sunday, July 10, 2011Suggested Admission to Museum: $10Museum of the City of New York1220 Fifth Avenue at 103rd StreetNew York, New York(212) 534-1672Moveable Feast: Fresh Produce and the NYC Green Cart Program documents an innovative NYC Department of Health and Mental Hygiene initiative that provides [...]

America: Now+Here 2009 Photography Portfolio

America: Now+Here 2009 Photography Portfolio Various Artists
16 Digital C-printsEach print approximately 20 x 24 in. Edition: 100 Each print signed and numberedPresented in a museum-quality box set which also includes a signed introductory essay by E.L. Doctorow$15,000 plus shipping and handling
The America: Now+Here 2009 Portfolio is a compilation of thirteen photographs by some of America’s most respected [...]

Photo Competition

Welcome to the Aperture Portfolio Prize,
an international photography competition!
The purpose of the Aperture Portfolio Prize is to identify trends in contemporary photography and specific artists whom we can help by bringing them to a wider audience. In choosing the first-prize winner and runners-up, we are looking for work that is fresh and that [...]

Aperture holiday sale ends January 3!

All Aperture books are currently 30% off! Here’s your change to buy one of the only books published by an African American photographer in the last few years. Seriously. And it’s a really terrific book.
Class Pictures Photographs by Dawoud BeyEssays by Jock Reynolds and Taro NettletonInterview [...]

  • 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 4, 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 4, 2012
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    • Mambu Badu’s Inaugural Magazine February 4, 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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