Tag: photography

  • Why I Created #ObamaAndKids Medium 2016-02-21 Michael Skolnik (Pete Souza/White House) THURSDAY, February 18, 2016. The White House. Washington, DC. President Barack Obama was about to enter the room, when I noticed a young boy standing next to me, dressed in a jacket and tie, looking to get to the front of the crowd. This…

  • Photo Series Celebrates The ‘Black Girl Power’ Of Brazilian Women The Huffington Post 2016-03-02 Zeba Blay, Voices Culture Writer It highlights women who are Afro-Brazilian and proud. For the past two years, Brazilian journalist Weudson Ribeiro has been documenting the beauty of Afro-Brazilian women by photographing spontaneous portraits of them in an ongoing project. The…

  • ‘Blaxicans’ photos explore Angelenos straddling two worlds Cable News Network (CNN) 2016-03-01 Emanuella Grinberg, Writer/Producer CNN Digital Blaxicans of L.A. is an Instagram account that grew into a show at Los Angeles’ Avenue 50 Studio during Black History Month. The exhibit includes portraits with captions detailing personal histories and experiences with colorism and self-identity. Ken…

  • #LookingForMezclas Hugo Amsellem Cali, Colombia 2016-02-11 Exploring the challenges of mingling identities with photos & stories of cool people I meet around the streets of the cities that I visit during my year-long travel… For more information, click here.

  • This photo of Obama and a little visitor at a Black History Month celebration is remarkable The Washington Post 2016-02-20 Janell Ross Clark Reynolds, 3, is greeted by President Obama during a Black History Month Celebration held Feb.18, 2016, at the White House in Washington, D.C. (Pete Souza/White House) For 3-year-old Clark Reynolds, Thursday began…

  • Invisible Bridges: Life Along the Chinese-Russian Border The New Yorker 2016-02-09 Peter Hessler In the summer of 2014, Davide Monteleone, an Italian photographer who had lived in Moscow for more than a decade, began to travel to the Russian-Chinese border in search of something that felt real and reliable. “I had been covering the uprising…

  • Black in the USSR: The children of Soviet Africa search for their own identity The Calvert Journal 2016-02-04 Photography by Liz Johnson Artur Photograph by Liz Johnson Artur “When people ask me about my background I usually start by explaining how my mum is Russian, my dad is Ghanaian and that I was born in…

  • An Artist Stands Before Her Fun House Mirror The New York Times 2016-01-06 Amanda Fortini Genevieve Gaignard, “A Golden State of Mind” installation, 2015. Credit: Eric Minh Swenson, via The Cabin LA and Diane Rosenstein LOS ANGELES — On a recent Friday afternoon, Genevieve Gaignard, a photographer, collagist and installation artist, was sitting on her…

  • Documenting the UK’s Black and Mixed Race Gingers Vice 2105-08-24 Natasha Culzac Francis Johnson by Michelle Marshall How would you describe a typical redhead? Do you think of Julianne Moore: light skinned and beautiful, with rust-coloured hair and a flush of crimson through her porcelain cheeks? Or do you think of Ed Sheeran? Either way,…

  • Photographing Multiracial Families In Scotland: Celebrating mothers, daughters and diversity through portraits Medium for Pixel Magazine 2015-12-17 Interview by Emily von Hoffmann and Polarr Image courtesy of Kim Simpson. Portrait photographer Kim Simpson began her Exottish project after her daughter, who is of mixed heritage, experienced a series of racial insults in her primary school…