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(The Squeeze) – The 2011 edition marks an important shift for Paris Photo, with a new venue at the Grand Palais and Julien Frydman as its new Director. The arrival of Paris Photo at the Grand Palais at last offers this perpetual movement its full scope and enables it to present all the wealth …
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(Examiner.com) – With revolutions in the Middle East and the United States’ current Occupy Wall Street movement dominating media reports throughout 2011, theInternational Year for People of African Descent as declared by the United Nations has received little attention but that didn’t stop the traveling photo exhibition “WoMen in Africa – No Color One Color," …
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As a dynamic, world class institution, the Museum of the African Diaspora (MoAD) brings people of all ages, ethnicities and backgrounds together so they can enjoy, study and appreciate, through enriching exhibitions, public and educational programs, the culture, history and art of people of African descent within the United States and throughout the world. MoAD is …
(Modern Ghana) – Three Ghanaian photographers – Nii Obodai, Nyani Quarmyne and Nana Kofi Acquah would represent Ghana at the 2011 edition of ‘Rencontres de Bamako’, an African photographic biennial, which opens on Monday, November 1 in the Malian capital, Bamako. Obodai’s pictures, which are drawn from a book titled ‘Who Knows Tomorrow’ – …
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Lagos Photo continued where it left off when its second edition opened at the Eko Hotel and Suites on October 9, Adewole Ajao reports Two Hundred images gave a lift to the escalator entrance of the Eko Hotel and Suites as 41 photographers opened another edition of the Lagos Photo at the Eko Hotel in …
(Associated Press via NPR) – Organizers have set a new date in October to dedicate the Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial in Washington, D.C. Hurricane Irene forced them to postpone the event in August, days before 250,000 people were expected to attend. The memorial’s executive architect Ed Jackson Jr. told The Associated Press on …
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Article published by The Atlanta Post on June 23, 2011 Models from Africa are seizing their moment. By Nana Ekua Brew-Hammond When the Somali makeup mogul Iman did her first shoot for Vogue in 1976 as a model, she paved the way for the international wave of black girls you see today. From supermodel Louise …
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