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These photos are from the opening and panel discussion for Double Exposure: African Americans Before and Behind the Camera at MoAD from their Flickr group. So cute, Kesha (top) and April & Amanda (bottom), all in front of their works! Check out the whole group. The artists and work in this show are lovely and [...]

A series of events will mark the opening of “Double Exposure: African Americans Before and Behind the Camera” at MoAD.
As a quick reminder, there are three events:
The members-only preview on Wednesday, June 18th from 6-8 pm
the Public Opening, and Artist Party on Friday June 20th from 7pm to midnight
and the Curator Walk/Artist Panel* on Sunday, [...]

Updated–April Banks Opening this coming weekend

Are you ready for more chocolate art? It’s gross humor!
Come see “Mass Nausea” April Banks’ latest photography installation about the global trade of chocolate.Show: “Close Calls” Group ExhibitionOpening Reception: Sun Feb 3, 2008 2-5pm
Location: Headlands Center for the Arts, 944 Fort Barry, Sausalito, CA 94965
Show runs: Jan 13 – Feb 25, 2008Free!
more info:http://www.headlands.org/event_detail.asp?key=20&eventkey=268
Hello All,I’m excited [...]

"Mass Nausea"

This is a PHOTOGRAPHY call to participate in an ongoing art series about chocolate.
Concept:Portraits of 100 people “vomiting” M&M chocolate candies as a big impact visual protest of Mars Corporation’s stake in Ivory Coast’s conflict produced cocoa. The brightly colored, best selling, seemingly innocuous candy comes at the enormous expense of child slave labor [...]

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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 […]


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