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practicing the arts of cogitation since the late 1900s.

Idea Capital grants

Idea Capital
Small, yet important idea grants for Atlanta artists.
A work in progress.

Continuing its innovative pilot project for a second cycle, Idea Capital will grant a Metropolitan Atlanta artist a minimum of $500 to encourage an experimental and investigative art project. We seek to foster a new tone of experimentation and support in the Atlanta [...]

Women’s Center to Begin Academic Year with Two Groundbreaking Events:
Audre Lorde Project and
A Conversation with Four Pioneers

Celebrating a 27-year legacy of scholarship, activism, community and change, the Women’s Research & Resource Center has assembled an excting array of events to mark the beginning of the the 2008-09 academic year [...]

Bud Smith: The Atlanta Series, 1968-2008

The Board and Staff of the Tubman Museum Invite you to a reception for
the exhibition
Bud Smith: The Atlanta Series, 1968-2008
On display: August 8, 2008 – October 18, 2008
The photographs in this special exhibition were taken by Arthur “Bud” Smith. A native of Atlanta, Smith’s long and varied career as a [...]

If you are in Atlanta in August-

Takara Portis‘ work is included in this show. There’s more info at http://www.studioswan.com/html/exhibinfo.asp?exnum=479

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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 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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