JOHANNESBURG :: Gallery MOMO presents :: NEW AFRICAN PHOTOGRAPHY
Re: LEAPFROG (a bit of the other) GRAND MATRON ARMY
Leapfrog (a bit of the other) grand matron army presents the female body in conversation with archetype, child’s play, allegory and myth. Positioned at the intersection of race and class we consider the relationship between desire, objectification, privilege and class mobility. At the same time we [...]
Artist news
Veronica Stein has been selected to participate in the 2009 “Chicago Artists Month” through the City of Chicago Department of Cultural Affairs during the month of October. She will be performing “Blak Is Brite; a Performance in Brown.” Venue TBA. Updates to come…
Ayana Vellissia Jackson’s recent work, “Commuter Van’s and No Man’s Land,” reflecting Nairobi’s [...]
Ayana V. Jackson: Looking-Glass Self
Galerie Peter Herrmann
Ayana V. Jackson
Looking-Glass Self
Opening: October 17, 7 pm
Exhibition: October 18 – November 22, 2008
Known for approaching her subjects in a manner that is equal parts personal, technical, and intense, Ayana V. Jackson’s images [...]
New photographers to check out
Danielle Scruggs
who also writes about photography on her blog, http://www.daniellescruggs.blogspot.com/
and Ayana Vellissia Jackson,
whose site opens with this great quote:
“Photography and sociology have approximately the same birth date, if you count sociology’s birth as the publication of Comte’s [...]
my other sites
photography groups
sites where I contribute
81 Press
- Taking a Break February 4, 2012Site 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[…]
- Mambu Badu’s Inaugural Magazine February 4, 2012Danielle 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 […]