carlagirl photo.

practicing the arts of cogitation since the late 1900s.

looking for film subjects

Greetings Good people,

I am the Co-Producer on a film project called Question Bridge Black Male. We are currently looking for more Black Male subjects to film in California. We will be shooting from July 14th -July 21st. We would like to include a variety of Black men and youth, but there are two groups of [...]

panel discussion

Thursday, May 14, 7 pm :
re:con-figure, Panel Discussion with Panel Moderator, Rene de Guzman, Sr. Curator, Oakland Museum of California

re:con-figure - Panel Discussion
Panel Moderator: René de Guzman, Senior Curator of Art, Oakland Museum of California
Panelists: Adriane Colburn, Collaborators Scott Kildall and Victoria Scott, Leslie Shows, Bayete Ross Smith

In the Kala Gallery, New Address: 2990 San [...]

Bayeté Ross Smith: Laws of Attraction

Check out this 4-part interview with Bayeté Ross Smith:
http://themongrel.com/2009/01/05/bayete-ross-smith-laws-of-attraction/
http://themongrel.com/2009/01/06/bayete-ross-smith-laws-of-attraction-part-ii/
http://themongrel.com/2009/01/07/bayete-ross-smith-laws-of-attraction-part-iii/
http://themongrel.com/2009/01/08/bayete-ross-smith-laws-of-attraction-part-iv/

UPDATED: Off Color (Rush Arts Gallery)

(This was first posted a year ago when the exhibition was in Miami. I just updated it for the current venue. For more information go to http://rushartsgallery.org)

Off Color [is] an exhibition designed to highlight nine international emerging artists (Elizabeth Axtman, Lauren Woods, Mansita Diawara, Nekisha Durrett, Stanley Squirewell, Bayeté Ross Smith, Russell Watson, Heather Hart, [...]

updates from Bayeté Ross Smith

Hello Everyone,

I hope the summer has been enjoyable and fulfilling for you all. I am currently finishing my residency at Can Serrat in Spain, however I want to let you all know about my upcoming solo exhibition in San Francisco. My series on Proms, entitled “Pomp and Circumstance: First Time To Be Adults” opens [...]

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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 8, 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 8, 2012
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    • Mambu Badu’s Inaugural Magazine February 8, 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 […]


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