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Progeny Two: Deb Willis & Hank Willis Thomas + Fo Wilson & Dayo @ The Light Factory

Progeny Two: Deb Willis & Hank Willis Thomas + Fo Wilson & DayoOctober 8, 2010 – January 23, 2011
Opening Friday October 8, 2010
6pm-8pm
Gantt Center for African Americam Arts + Culture
Deborah Willis and Hank Willis Thomas – mother and son – collaborate with Fo Wilson and her son Dayo Harewood for Progeny Two which opens to [...]

Review of “In My Father’s House,” Pittsburgh

(This looks like a really interesting show—I want that banquette, Cheryl!—but, really, where are the copy editors??? “Cary May Weems?” These kinds of things are just so lazy and easily remedied. Also, I can’t recall ever reading an exhibitions manager quoted as calling an exhibition in her venue “neat.” I guess I can’t ever shrug [...]

Review of “In My Father’s House”

August Wilson Center exhibit looks at the keeping of memories

CFS: UNFIXED

UNFIXED is a mutliplatform project initiated and developed by us and it is organized in cooperation with Centrum Beeldende Kunst (Center for Contemporary Art) Dordrecht.
In short UNFIXED is a project that explores the relation between photography, postcolonial perspectives and contemporary art. It includes an exhibition, symposium, workshop, artist commission-residency, and a resulting publication. The title [...]

Scotiabank CONTACT Photography Festival

Scotiabank CONTACT Photography Festival
80 Spadina Avenue, Suite 310
Toronto, Ontario M5V 2J4
T 416 539 9595
F 416 539 0829
info@scotiabankcontactphoto.com
www.scotiabankcontactphoto.com

Festival Launch & The Mechanical Bride Opening
Friday April 30, 7 – 10pm
Museum of Contemporary Canadian Art
952 Queen St W
Come celebrate the launch of the 2010 festival and the opening of The Mechanical Bride, one of three primary exhibitions in [...]

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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 […]


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