Story behind a 19th-century Lagos photograph featuring three ordinary women traders, teachers, and healers during colonial ...

“She was a person way ahead of her time,” Kanaga’s friend and fellow photographer Dorothea Lange (1895–1965) once said of her ...

As we enter International Black Women’s History Month, Black art has always been a means of documenting and creating history, putting out powerful stories that depict Black women’s experiences ...

For the second year in a row, the top award has gone to a talented female photographer, this time Piper Mackay from the US. Shooting in infrared (IR), her portraits of African women are simple and ...

They are among the subjects in the photography exhibition, "Iconic Women: From Everyday Life to Global Heroes," that opens on March 8, in honor of International Women's Day, at the Muhammad Ali ...

“Her portraits of African women are simply beautiful and exquisite in their detail, whilst her shots of giraffes in Kenya’s Maasai Mara are tremendously atmospheric,” the judges wrote.

He got trapped by the Civil War so he spent a lot of time in Tennessee and Alabama and started doing portraits of the African-Americans.” The Wood's program, on Friday, Jan. 23, at 7:30 p.m., will ...

Women and girls of African descent continue to face multiple and overlapping forms of discrimination, manifesting in higher rates of poverty (SDG 1), barriers to education (SDG 4), limited access ...

Edgerton said the portraits can be used for practical reasons, like college and professional development, “but it also is just a grand representation of who they are in their lives.” It all comes back ...

A girl staring into the distance, two Chinese coal miners joking during a break from work, and a Pallas cat lying in the snow in Mongolia are among the winners of the Travel Photographer of the ...