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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 [...]

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    • Palimpsest: New Journal Announcement and CFP September 2, 2010
      Website and Submission Guidelines Information: www.vanderbilt.edu/aframst/palimpsest Inquiries: PalimpsestJournal@vanderbilt.edu Palimpsest: A Journal on Women, Gender and the Black International is a peer-reviewed journal that publishes cutting edge interdisciplinary scholarship and creative work by and about women of the African Diaspora and their commu […]
    • CFS: Photobook!! The Photographer and the Self-Published Book September 2, 2010
      I’m writing to request you spread the word regarding our November 18 – December 19 exhibition, PHOTOBOOK!! It’s our first annual juried photobooks show. I’m a true believer in the photobook to bring one’s work to the attention of the public. I think it’s a natural for the end of the [...] […]
    • Annual powerHouse Arena Book and Tag Sale July 28 – September 6 September 2, 2010
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