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Joshua Esmanuel-David Slater
“L’Autre-chienne”, 2012
Marie Antoinette character of myth.
— with Alexandria Eregbu.
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BLACK VENUS, Vol. 1 by Maxim Vakhovskiy.
My good friend, Maxim, has finally released the first volume of his Black Venus portrait photography series. He’s been working on this project for many years now and it swells my heart with pride that he’s gotten to publish some of these amazing captures and share his beautiful works with all of us. Cannot wait to get my copy in the mail. Congrats, Maxim!
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I am extremely excited to present a GAQ feature interview and photo spread with incredible photographer and artist, Sophia Wallace. Wallace merges narrative, documentary, fashion, and performance strategies to create dialogue around notions of gender and identity. And it’s beautiful work. Perhaps the most striking thing about Wallace’s work for me is her ability to create imagery as crisp and fashion-forward as those in your latest issue of Vogue, while simultaneously offering cultural commentary and bringing thought provoking themes to the fore.
I asked Wallace some questions about her work, her process and the ideas behind it all. Click the photo for the entire spread, or click HERE to download.
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Beauty at the Bronx Museum
Patricia Coffie
Far From Home
24” by 24”
C-print
2008
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SIGNAL BOOST: MEDIA IGNORE THEFT OF PHOTOGRAPHER’S WORK DOCUMENTING BLACK LESBIAN LIVES
An award winning photographer who has devoted her working life to documenting the lives of black lesbians has had five years worth of her work stolen.
Zanele Muholi, described by the Open Society Initiative for Southern Africa as “one of the country’s foremost artists”, had more than 20 external hard drives stolen from her flat in Vredehoek, Cape Town on April 20.
The hard drives contain stills and video footage, including photos from the funerals of victims of homophobic hate crimes. It is thought that the burglars were targeting Muholi’s work, as little else was taken from her flat, and back up hard drives were also taken.
Muholi’s partner Liesl Theron, with whom she shares the flat, said that her possessions were left untouched, except for a laptop which was stolen, further fuelling belief that Muholi was the intended target of the crime.
The work taken had been captured across South Africa, Zimbabwe, Uganda and Malawi, according to the Cape Times. Also stolen was work due to be shown at an exhibition in July, which Muholi believes she will now have to cancel.
Despite the volume of work stolen and the imminence of the planned exhibition, Muholi’s plight has been largely ignored by the media. It is believed that the lack of publicity is due to the nature of her work, which shows a different side to the black lesbian community than that usually represented in the mainstream media.
“I’m not myself. I can’t even sleep at night since I’ve heard about the burglary,” the devastated Muholi told DIVA. She has appealed for anyone who knows the whereabouts of the hard drives to return them.
Queer photographer Del LaGrace Volcano said of the theft; “Zanele’s work is, in my not so humble opinion, some of the most important work being produced, not just in Africa, but anywhere. I consider her a dear friend and mourn the loss of her archive as if it were my own.”
Zanele’s supporters are fundraising to help her replace the stolen equipment. Donations can be made online at IndieGoGo.
The investigation into the burglary is ongoing, according to a police spokesperson.
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David Agbodji & Dominique Hollington Photographed By Matthew Brookes
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Marilyn Minter, Wangechi Gold series
I heart me some gold and Wangechi Mutu
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![One must ask then, what is the allure of [Abigail] Hadeed? And the answer is simply that where the abstruse (or what I would refer to as ‘the intellect in the mirror’) has been swept from the forefront of the creative process, the heart has spilled. And though this inundation doesn’t thoroughly blind us to the short-comings and implications of the path she has taken, it allows us not to miss too much what she has chosen to shunt. There is almost always, even where the photograph itself falls short of the iconic, a redeeming humanity in the works, a soft-texturedness of the vision that directs the lens. And despite her ostensible outsider status amid communities or groups she has sought out to photograph, there does not seem to be the outsider distance that may help in producing iconic pictures. I am speaking of those photographs that, by their astonishing accuracy of depicting human passions, raise suspicions that allow us to perceive a distance that is invariably there. (Arc Magazine)](http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m3o1y9lWv81qdy97oo1_1280.jpg)
One must ask then, what is the allure of [Abigail] Hadeed? And the answer is simply that where the abstruse (or what I would refer to as ‘the intellect in the mirror’) has been swept from the forefront of the creative process, the heart has spilled. And though this inundation doesn’t thoroughly blind us to the short-comings and implications of the path she has taken, it allows us not to miss too much what she has chosen to shunt. There is almost always, even where the photograph itself falls short of the iconic, a redeeming humanity in the works, a soft-texturedness of the vision that directs the lens. And despite her ostensible outsider status amid communities or groups she has sought out to photograph, there does not seem to be the outsider distance that may help in producing iconic pictures. I am speaking of those photographs that, by their astonishing accuracy of depicting human passions, raise suspicions that allow us to perceive a distance that is invariably there. (Arc Magazine)
Cleo N. LaMothe photographed by Anna Barsan.
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