Mambu Badu // Photography Collective
(What a great email to wake up to—exciting news about a new collective of black women photographers. Check it out!)
Mambu Badu // Photography Collective
Mambu Badu is a new photography collective created in 2010 that seeks to find, expose, and nurture emerging Black/African-American female photographers.
“Mambu Badu” is a Swahili phrase meaning “the best has yet to [...]
No Money No Problems: A Recession Art Show
No Money No Problems: A Recession Art Show
October 3-10, 2009
Providing exposure for emerging artists and affordable art for collectors, No Money No Problems: A Recession Art Show proves that quality contemporary art can still thrive in an economy where even the cost of a paintbrush is a struggle. No Money No Problems will run October [...]
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 8, 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 8, 2012[…]
- Mambu Badu’s Inaugural Magazine February 8, 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 […]