Mambu Badu Photography Collective

MAMBU BADU is a collective of cultural producers and artists who curate experiences that center the process and product of black self-identified women with a focus on photo-based work. Our Tumblr is a collection of images and words that keep us (and our readers) enlightened, engaged, and informed.

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Memory, our inaugural anthology of work by Black women photographers, will be on display at @cpwwpc for their Common Sense (s) photozine exhibition. • Featured Memory artists: Jen Everett, Nkechi Ebubedike, Yodith Dammlash, Nikita Gale, Tonika Lewis (neé Johnson), and Sheree Swann. • Opening reception is this Saturday, 2/20 starting at 5pm! It'll be up until April 10th! #photo #cpw #mambubadu #woodstock #blackwomenphotographers #blackgirlgenius #blackgirlhardwork (at The Center for Photography at Woodstock)

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It's been a long time, family. We went away for a while but we have a few projects cooking. Keep checking this space for updates!

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#Repost @kameelahr with @repostapp. // congrats to our very own!! ・・・ It's live! I have a solo show opening at Weeksville Heritage Museum on June 5th. Come through! KAMEELAH RASHEED FUTURE PERFECT / INDICES & MARGINALIA JUNE 5­-24, 2015 CURATED BY ALI ROSA-SALAS / @prdiva09 Brooklyn-based artist Kameelah Rasheed pieces together fragments from institutional collections, the Internet and Weeksville Heritage Center’s archives to illuminate the under-told history of liberation that shaped 19th century Weeksville and continues to take root in Black communities across the nation. OPENING RECEPTION FRIDAY, JUNE 5, 2015 | 6­-9PM Refreshments provided by The Caona Shack and PH2OG Water RSVP ARTIST TALK: KAMEELAH RASHEED + LADI’SASHA JONES WEDNESDAY, JUNE 17, 2015 | 6:30­-8:30PM Kameelah Rasheed reflects on her creative practice with archivist and cultural arts producer Ladi’Sasha Jones.

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Portraits of the Palettes of Famous Dead Artists

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Layers Of Life Under Apartheid - Images by South African Photographer Bob Gosani.

Photos via Bailey’s African History Archive.

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Pepón Osorio | Puerto Rican

Quinceañera | 2011

Quinceañera (2011) is a plastic hand decorated with a synthetic orchid holding a paper plate covered with aluminum foil, suggesting the leftovers after a party. The idea is reinforced by the vinyl text next to the piece that describes a friend’s enjoyment at the end of the party, when partygoers argue about who is going to take home the table centerpiece and extra cake.

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Philippe Halsman: Duke Ellington, 1967

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Read our interview with photographer Larry Fink, the 2015 Infinity Awards Recipient for Art.

All images courtesy the artist © Larry Fink.

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A$AP ROCKY / COMPLEX MAGAZINE COVER STORY

Photograph by Neil Krug

http://instagram.com/neilkrug

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Yinka Shonibare MBE Manifests the Ghost of Manhattan’s Oldest House

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Then You Lost Me (2013) - Njideka Akunyili

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Do not disturb, Mirko Rotondi

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Baby Carriage on Bike or Riot Shield as Carriage, 2015, 204 × 348 in. (518.2 × 883.9 cm). 

Michele Abeles (b. 1977) is a New York-based artist who works primarily in photography, often addressing recent changes in the medium and its influences.  Her photographs engage with the contemporary climate of communication in which images are constantly created, altered, shared, interpreted, and (mis)understood. Baby Carriage on Bike or Riot Shield as Carriage (2015) will be her first one-person presentation at a museum

Installation photo by Timothy Schenck

(Source: The Whitney Museum)

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Black Orpheus (Portuguese: Orfeu Negro) is a 1959 film made in Brazil by French director Marcel Camus and starring Marpessa Dawn and Breno Mello. It is based on the play Orfeu da Conceição by Vinicius de Moraes, which is an adaptation of the Greek legend of Orpheus and Eurydice, set in the modern context of a favela in Rio de Janeiro during Carnaval. The film was an international co-production between production companies in Brazil, France and Italy.

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m.A.A.d, 2014

Stills from award-winning director Kahlil Joseph’s short film, m.A.A.d., the companion piece to Kendrick Lamar’s 2012 LP good kid, m.A.A.d. city. 

Currently on view at MOCA as part of the exhibit Double Conscience, up through August 16 at MOCA Grand Avenue, 250 S. Grand Ave.

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Life in the Mississippi Delta in the 1980s and 1990s: Birney Imes

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Deep South, Kei Orihara (1977)