Photographers
Birmingham Bombing Photographer: Racism Does Not Live in the Past, But in The Present
Washington’s National Gallery of Art is showcasing the horrific 1963 Birmingham Church Bombing. Just two days after Dr. Martin Luther King’s March on Washington, the Ku Klux Klan bombed a church, kill...
What a Picture from the Sky Reveals About Oppression
In honor of the MLK Special Issue, The Atlantic commissioned artist and photographer LaToya Ruby Frazier to photograph Chicago, Baltimore, and Memphis from the air—cities that bear MLK’s legacy. In he...
Photographer David Johnson: ‘A phenomenal journey’
Photographer David Johnson was the first African American student of Ansel Adams. He documented parts of San Francisco in the 1940s through the 1960s that were rarely seen. Now his engaging archive is...
Panel Discussion: Photography
A Conversation with Ming Smith, Adger Cowans, and Dawoud Bey Moderated by Deb Willis. Formed in New York in 1963, the Kamoinge Workshop is a collective of African American photographers seeking artist...
A Photographer’s Mission to Capture a New Image of Africa
Photography has a unique way of changing perceptions of a place, simply by presenting images that we’ve never seen before. It is exactly this characteristic that motivates Mutua Matheka’s work. Africa...
Queen Photographers 50by50 Challenge
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The unfortunate history of racial bias in photography.
Original video found at Vox. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d16LNHIEJzs Published on 18 Sep 2015 The unfortunate history of racial bias in photography. Subscribe today: http://goo.gl/0bsAjO For decad...
Rare 1920s Footage: All-Black Towns Living the American Dream | National Geographic
By the 1920s, Oklahoma was home to some 50 African-American towns, in addition to a large and prosperous black community living in the city of Tulsa. These towns and their self-reliant middle class an...
African American Legends: Chester Higgins, Jr., Photographer (2001)
Legendary photographer, Chester Higgins Jr., talks about his new book “Elder Grace: The Nobility of Aging” and what motivated him to create this work. Higgins also addresses some of the issues that su...