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news from LaToya Ruby Frazier

Check out a really great recent interview with the Morning News in which Frazier talks about her seven-year collaboration with her Grandma Ruby and Mom in Braddock, PA (a town that was featured in this New York Times article). I’m especially excited to read—obviously—that she’s working on a book and publishers are interested. Somebody certainly [...]

Deanna Bowen: Stories to pass on…

Deanna Bowen: Stories to pass on…
The Thames Art Gallery is pleased to announce Stories to pass on…, an exhibition by Toronto based interdisciplinary artist Deanna Bowen. The exhibition is comprised of two installation works: Gospel (2008) and Shadow on the Prairie (2009).  Both works are a result of the artist’s efforts to trace her great [...]

Creative Time partners with MTV

MEDIA ALERT (August 26, 2008 New York, NY)
NYC NONPROFIT CREATIVE TIME PARTNERS WITH MTV
Bringing video art to New York’s media mecca

Photo: Mark Tribe, Port Huron Project 4: We Are Also Responsible, 2008. Photo: Davis Jung.
MTV 44 1/2, the outdoor, gilded screen located in the heart of New York City’s Times Square, will feature a [...]

Moving Walls 14 (Collette Fournier interview)

Interview with photographer Collette Fournier on her work featured in the group photography exhibition Moving Walls 14. Photography: Collette Fournier Producer: Pamela Chen Editor: Candice Hoeflinger Video: Candice Hoeflinger and Jozsef Gazso/OSI Web Manager: Chipp Winston Web Designer: Josh Leeman Exhibition Manager: Yukiko Yamagata

OPEN CALL

OPEN CALL FOR SHORT FILMS, VIDEOS, AND NEW MEDIA SCREEN-BASED WORKSUnder 10 minutes in length.Deadline: February 28, 2008 (postmark)No fee, no payCurators: Bill Basquin & Nomi Talisman

Thematic considerations:We are looking for submissions under 10 minutes in length that relate to the themeof INTERVENTION. This film program will be screened as a part of the Interrupt,Intervene! [...]

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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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