Greetings,
We are pleased to extend an invitation to submit work for an upcoming anthology on Black women photographers.
This anthology seeks to compile the works of Black Women photographers born 1965 and beyond. These are dynamic, young women who have an evident freedom in their vision. Their work aims at expanding the conversation on the medium of photography. This book will also explore the images created by Black women. This collective of photographers can be called the aesthetic daughters of Dr. Deborah Willis, Carrie Mae Weems, Coreen Simpson, Lorna Simpson, Jeanne Moutoussamy-Ashe, et al. – photographers who have secured a foundation for future generations to compose boundlessly. Please join us in contributing to this spirited movement in photography.
Submitting your work:
The editors requests samples of your strongest/signature work that reflects your mission as a photographer. There is no limit to subject matter; it should be broad in range.
We invite you to submit 10 to 20 images.
CD Submissions:
Images should not exceed 5×7 inches @ 300 dpi.
Email Submissions:
Send small .jpgs @ 72dpi
Email: blacklightanthology@gmail.com
We will also accept laser copies. Please do not send originals, as they will not be returned.
Along with your images, please send an artist statement (two paragraphs), image descriptions and bio (two paragraphs). Please indicate if you have series within your submission.
To submit via mail:
Say It Loud/BlackLight
P.O. Box 26272
Brooklyn, N.Y. 11202-6272
Deadline: April 3, 2006 (Mail submissions must be postmarked by this date)
About the Editors:
Delphine Fawundu-Buford has over ten years of experience as a photographer. She has been featured in the photography anthologies Black: A Celebration of a Culture and Reflections in Black: A History of Black Photographers from 1840 - Present by Deborah Willis. Her most notable photograph graced the cover of the companion book to the Brooklyn Museum of Art exhibition Committed to The Image: Contemporary Black Photographers. She has also contributed to magazines such as Vibe, The Source, Essence and Honey. Her works were also featured in the critically acclaimed exhibitions Only Skin Deep at the International Center of Photography and Open: Artist Working in Brooklyn at the Brooklyn Museum of Art. Of Sierra Leone and Guinea, West African parentage, she was born and raised in Brooklyn where she resides with her husband and three sons.
Laylah Amatullah Barrayn is a writer and photographer. As a journalist she has been on assignment in Africa, Asia and the Caribbean. Her writing has appeared in Vibe, Complex, The Source and America. She is an Atkins Fellow with the Jazz Journalism Association. Her essay was recently included in the award winning anthology, My Soul to His Spirit. As a photographer, her work has been exhibited nationally in galleries and non-traditional spaces. Her photography has been included in Black: A Celebration of a Culture and the forthcoming Saturday Night, Sunday Morning both edited by Deborah Willis.
I was delighted to come across this website and contest and found it very disturbing to see here the stipulation for woman born “1965 an beyond.” Once again there is a prefernce for the young and it is particularly distubing to see this in the arena of Black artists long held outside for all the obvious reasons of color and or gender biases, now we have within our own camps, age delliniations of preferences for youth. I am excluded and others who I would refer to enter submissions for your anthology take this as not only a personal insult but objecively speaking, a very sad comment on the same exclusions we have seen in our communitites and the world of art in general, right here in Black organizations that also run bias in this instance and kind of age preference. We need to not go to “1965 and beyond,” we need to get beyond this kind of age discriminiation, it should nt be a criteria here or elsewhere.
I too echo the sentiments of A.J. Dade. It is quite disturbing to see in the arts age preferences. Art is timeless and ageless, hence there should not be any type of age discrimination… especially amongst women of color in the arts. We all have many gifts and talents that we can share and learn from one another. We need to move away from this and beyond.