Black Female Photographers of NYC

01/30/2021

Very inspiring story (he started doing photography just 2.5 years ago!)

At the beginning of 2020, Cornell Watson's full-time job was in human resources. At the end of the year, he was shooting for the New York Times and

01/22/2021

Meet Vice President Harris' official photographer, Lawrence Jackson (and he's no stranger to the White House!)

Photographer Lawrence Jackson   THE TENURE OF THE FIRST WOMAN, first Black, and first Asian American to serve as Vice President of the United States will be visually documented by a Blac...

08/31/2020

Interesting take on the subject...it's about building relationships.

Making any kind of money from photography is hard, so it would seem counter-intuitive to give away your work for free. However, there are times when I have no hesitation in giving away dozens of images free to people. Read on to see why this might help you too. To start, I want to make it emphatical...

08/11/2020

Appreciate the author's self-awareness and honesty. Just because you are excellent and passionate about photography (or anything), doesn't mean you HAVE to turn it into a business.

Thoughts?

It’s been 12 or 13 years since I got seriously interested in photography. However, I haven’t made photography my business, even though I’m very interested in it and reasonably good at it. So why’s that? Well, I’ve been thinking a lot about it lately. Why have I never had a wish to become a...

08/03/2020

JOB ALERT! Hello everyone, this is Lo**ta, one of the admins of this group. A couple reached out to me seeking a wedding photographer. Beach wedding on Nov 15, 2020. That's all the info I have. If interested, send a DM!

07/30/2020

We are here for this!!! Congrats to all the amazing Black Female Photographers on this list.

The National Geographic Society’s nine new Storytelling Fellows will embark upon a year-long project to explore timely issues the world needs to hear using a variety of storytelling mediums.

07/28/2020

VOGUE JAPAN is not playing around! Black Girls Rock: Vogue Japan’s September Issue is an all-black girl affair. How’s this for a well photographed magazine cover???

5 black girls;Mayowa Nicholas, Shanelle Nyasiase, Amar Akway and Aliet Sarah are on the cover of Vogue Japan's Septemebr 2020 Issue

07/23/2020

“It has been so hard for Richardson to tell her son that he can't do the thing he loves most in the world, because it isn't safe. "If you're going to run, I need you in a track uniform and I need you running with other people, because even with that, you could still be seen as a threat," she told Shawn when he was younger.”
Great piece published in NPR Morning Edition with poignant images taken by the one and only Laylah Amatullah Barrayn.

Minnesota state Rep. Ruth Richardson doesn't want her teenage son, Shawn, a track athlete, to go running outside. "You can't do the same things that your white friends do," she remembers telling him.