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We’re BACK ✨💸📸
Back for a third year, applications for the
@BlkWomenPhoto
x Nikon Grants are open now! Get your application in for an opportunity to take home part of $50k in grants and the latest mirrorless Z series gear: .
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Our 2023 Black Women Photographers x
@Essence
Festival team 💫
Thank you,
@essencefest
, for another year of partnership hiring BWP. 💫
#EssenceFest
#EssenceFestival
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📸: Sheryl Lee Ralph photographed by Myesha Evon Gardner for Backstage.
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🎞️ Film photographers: Share your favorite photos from this year.
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Why not give a black photographer the opportunity to shoot this cover?
In our new issue, we look at America in the wake of the killings of Breonna Taylor, Ahmaud Arbery, and George Floyd, including
@zakcheneyrice
on what calls for order are really calling for
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2x Olympian Simone Manuel photographed by Dana Scruggs for Vogue’s September issue.
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We need more Black photographers in the industry to be *hired.*
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The CDC recommends hiring Black women photographers.
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“Can I get the raw files?”
🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩
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We’re thrilled to announce that Atlanta-based photographer Inari Washington (
@inaribriana
) is the winner of our Nikon Z6 Giveaway!
Congrats, Inari! 🎉 We’re so excited to see what you produce with it! 🎉
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We are deeply saddened to learn about the heartbreaking passing of one of our members, Aisha Bada.
It feels like it was just yesterday that her powerful COVID-19 series was a part of our exhibition. This is an incredibly devastating loss for us and the photojournalism community.
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@Sianeh8
, a Liberian Ivorian photographer and creative storyteller currently based in 🇬🇭 Accra, Ghana 🇬🇭, is taking over our Instagram for the next two days!
✨ Follow along:
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Shout out to Chanelle Smith-Walker for wrapping up her first season in the NFL as a team photographer for the
@Panthers
. We see you! 💐👏🏾🏈🙌🏾
#HireBlackWomenPhotographers
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We’re now verified on Instagram, Twitter and Pinterest! 🥳🥳🥳
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We do this work all year round.
✨🇰🇪 Black Women Photographers in Kenya from our first 2023 event. ✨🇰🇪
🎥: Filmed by Ayan Karanja.
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Megan Thee Stallion x TIME Magazine
📸: Photographed by Dana Scruggs
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Normani photographed by Adrienne Raquel for Allure Magazine.
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We’re doing a two-week 🇭🇹 Haiti Relief Print Sale. 🇭🇹 All proceeds will go to Ayiti Demen/ Fokal, a local organization working directly to help with the relief.
All participants in this sale are Haitian BWP members. Check it out:
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Hey you, yes you. Don’t add a filter to your photographer’s edited photo.
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Good morning to everyone hiring Black photographers all year round.
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It’s the hiring a Black woman photographer for me! 🥺🖤
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🎉 HEY Y’ALL!!! TODAY IS OUR SECOND ANNIVERSARY 🎉
We’ve got some AMAZING things in store from our friends at Nikon, Profoto, Moment, B&H, and more! 👀✨
#BWPTurnsTwo
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✨ Friendly reminder that you can support Black women and non-binary photographers this holiday season by purchasing their work ✨
If you're selling prints, drop a few photos and your link below.
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I just want y’all to know I’m thinking about y’all. I wish y’all was at USAs 😭😪
@BlkWomenPhoto
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We are EXCITED to announce the first annual
#BWPSummit
, sponsored by
@Adobe
, to be held virtually March 11-13, 2022, featuring twelve speakers from around the world. 📸🖤💥
Speakers include:
@RAVIEB
,
@kihmberlie
, and
@audrey__woulard
.
Register for FREE:
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We’re building a global team.
Apply here:
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One year ago today, we launched this global community and directory. 🎉
Now on our FIRST anniversary, we’re thrilled to announce the Black Women Photographers x
@NikonUSA
Grant Fund with $40,000 available in grants! 🎉 $10K available in gear! 🎉
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🎉 Today is our FIRST anniversary 🎉
To celebrate, we’re holding a print sale and fundraiser for the month of July.
🎉 Shop NOW 🎉
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Black womxn photographers:
We want to see your film work.
🎞👇🏾👀
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Since our launch in July, we have been able to help 70 Black women photographers receive a portfolio review from industry leaders at Nikon USA, The AP, and Getty Images!
Here’s to 70 more! 🖤📸💥
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Black Women Photographers in Kenya!
Thank you all for an amazing meet up this week. We’re just getting started.
📸🇰🇪: Esther Sweeney.
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Lucky Daye photographed by Adrienne Raquel. ✨
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Meet Kennedi Carter, the young NC photographer who landed photo shoots with Beyoncé and Simone Biles
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Gotta start em’ young 😍
LeBron’s daughter Zhuri looking like a NATURAL out there 📸
@KingJames
(via
@goodlooksfamily
)
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Janelle Monáe seeks Black women and non-binary photographers and videographers for US tour 🎶
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"The Kitchen Table Series" by Carrie Mae Weems - 1990. See more:
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Y’all remember prints?
Our annual print sale is LIVE! 🤩
Support our work and shop 50+ prints from members of the Black Women Photographers community ✨
Happy Black History Month! ✨
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✨ Portrait photographers: Share your favorite photos from this year.
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As part of our
#2021BWP
lists, we asked our members to share their favorite photo that they took this year.
📸:
@RachelSeidu
🇳🇬
“I enjoy the air in the image, the way it feels like a breath of fresh air. The way the women are free and happy, it’s how I want to be.”
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💥 SURPRISE 💥
Thanks to our friends at
@NikonUSA
, we are giving away a brand new Nikon Z 6 mirrorless camera and Nikon 24-70mm f/4 S lens to one member of our community. 💥 Full details here:
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The inaugural Black Women Photographers x
@NikonUSA
$50K Grant Fund is NOW OPEN for applications! 🥳
#BWPxNikon
- (1) $10,000 grant
- (4) $5,000 grant
- (5) $3,000 grant
- (2) Nikon Z mirrorless kits
APPLY:
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Creatives: A friendly reminder that stepping away from your work is OK. You can hit pause. You can unplug. Do whatever you need to do to care for yourself—your mental health matters.
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We heard it’s
#NationalCameraDay
.
Last year, we gave away four new mirrorless kits from Nikon. This year, we may have something up our sleeve.
Stay tuned! 📸🤩👀
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🥁 🥁 🥁
We are so excited to announce a new partnership with
@LiveNationUrban
to Hire Members of Black Women Photographers 💥 Nationwide 💥 at Concerts and Music Festivals!!!
Y’all hear that? It’s the sound of BWP’s getting HIRED!!!
#BWPLIVE22
details:
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Reminder: There are people out there rooting for you. Keep going.
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Representation matters. 👏🏾
Shout out to Black woman photographer
@cherissmay
for making history while documenting history. 👏🏾
Photographed by
@Al_Drago
.
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📸: Ashley Peña.
For Simone Biles, walking away was an act of self-reclamation. She told the story of her Tokyo Games to
@CAMONGHNE
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@DanaScruggs1
on photographing Megan Thee Stallion for TIME: “I only had 5 minutes to shoot
@theestallion
for the cover of
@TIME
. A story for another day. In the mean time, I SHOT THE COVER OF TIME MAGAZINE!!!“
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Give a Black woman a chance and look at what she can do! 👏🏾💥👏🏾💥👏🏾
15 Nike projects, 10 editorials, 8 Brands, an HBO series, an iconic music video, an international Puma campaign, my work still in all Footlocker stores globally, No agency. Thank you for the amazing opportunities 2021 and thank you for giving a black woman a chance 🤍
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We’re thrilled to announce that with our friends from
@NikonUSA
, we surprised Storee with a new Z mirrorless kit on her birthday.
We can’t wait to watch her grow in the years to come. 🥹📸🖤💛
In conclusion: It’s never too early or too late to pursue your passion.
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It’s that time again!
HEADSHOT SWAPS 📸✨👀
If you’re a photographer willing to trade your service with another photographer to take headshots of each other, please comment with your location and a link to work below. Yes, YOU do need photos of yourself. 👏🏾📸
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Who needs a new camera? Watch this space, we’ve got a giveaway with
@NikonUSA
dropping tomorrow to celebrate World Photography Day.
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Thank you for believing in and supporting the Black Women Photographers mission. For too long, we’ve been overlooked. Thank you for using your platform to help change that.
APPLY, APPLY, APPLY 📸🎥💥
I’m so excited to be partnering with
@BlkWomenPhoto
,
@LiveNation
and
@FEMtheFUTURE
to hire Black women and non-binary photographers for “The Age Of Pleasure Tour!!!”
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🚨 Guess what?! 🚨
We're excited to announce that we collaborated with
@vsco
because we believe that
#BlackJoyMatters
. 🖤
Check out their latest IG post to see work from
@JadaImaniM
,
@karisbeau
,
@pollyirungu
,
@PoochieCollins
,
@HiDeexDee
, and more members of our community.
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"The Kitchen Table Series" by Carrie Mae Weems - 1990. See more:
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Happy Earth Day 🌍 to all the Black Women Photographers capturing the world around them. We see you!
📸: BWP member Zandi Ndhlovu in Cape Town, South Africa. 🇿🇦
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POV. 👀🔥
We want to see you in action! Tag us in your BTS photos/videos with you at work. And if you’re interested in sports photography, let us know. 💥
📸 of Callena Williams at work 🏈👏🏾
#HireBlackWomenPhotographers
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🗣 Attention all Black womxn photographers 🗣
Black Friday is around the corner.
Do you have a print shop? Are you selling any photo-related products? Offering classes? Or discounts?
Let us knowww. 👇🏾
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Creatives: Today, it’s Twitter. Tomorrow it can be Instagram or TikTok or whatever else. If you don’t already have a place where people can find you offline, here’s another reminder to start. Build that site. Build that newsletter.
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Surprise! We will be in conversation with
@PeteSouza
on Wednesday, February 3rd at 1pm EST.
Join us:
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Remembering Jessie Maple. 🖤🙏🏾
She was believed to be the first Black woman to produce, write and direct an independent feature film. She also broke ground as a union cinematographer.
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Portraits of
@IAMJHUD
as Aretha Franklin and
@MarlonWayans
as her husband, Ted White, photographed by Adrienne Raquel.
#RespectMovie
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Happy New Year, photographers! ✨
Friendly reminder to change the year in your camera and on your website! ✨
Let’s have a wonderful year! 🖤
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It’s the final week of 2020.
Show us your favorite work from this year or shout out a Black woman photographer that has inspired you.
📸👇🏾
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We are in PRINT! 🎉
Black Women Photographers on what International Women’s Day means to them via
@guardian
🌍📸🖤✨
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“Yesterday's price is not today's price.”
- Creatives everywhere.
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Guess what?! The wonderful
@womenphotograph
team has invited us to takeover their Instagram for the week. 🖤🙌🏾 Follow along:
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The Black Women Photographers x
@NikonUSA
$50K Grant Fund is NOW OPEN for applications! 🥳
#BWPxNikon
- (1) $10,000 grant
- (5) $5,000 grant
- (5) $3,000 grant
- (4) Nikon Z 📸 kits
APPLY:
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We hit 11K on Twitter! 🎉 Thanks so much for supporting our community.
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Why We Need More Women in Hip Hop Photography
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2020: one day I’ll photograph
@coachella
2022: blessed to announce I’m shooting
@coachella
📸🥺
👏🏾 A REMINDER TO ALL OF YOU READING THIS TO KEEP GOING 👏🏾
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📸: Denzel Washington photographed by Dana Scruggs for the NYT.
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A quick story. ✨
Meet Storee Elle Walton (IG: @ storeeelle) a nine-year-old photographer based in Memphis, Tennessee.
Earlier this year, Storee went viral again on social media for being the youngest to photograph a
@memgrizz
game. (1/3)
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Recognize these covers? In collaboration with
@Lightroom
, we’re excited to announce that AB+DM (
@theahmadbarber
+
@dontemaurice
) will be joining us for a Q&A conversation on Friday, Feb. 5th at 1pm ET.
💥 RSVP:
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Sending love to all of you who decided to pursue a career you love. Despite the lows, you still find a way to keep going.
If no one told you this recently, we’re proud of you. Keep doing what you love. We’re rooting for you 🫶🏾✨
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Motherhood through the lens of Black Women Photographers. 💛🥰
📸:
@WanjaNjama
✨
Full gallery:
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We’re on the front page of the
@guardian
’s Photography section!!
Black Women Photographers on the theme of ‘home’ – in pictures:
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We’re proud to announce that our BWP Haiti Relief Print Sale raised $4,021.80! All proceeds will be donated to
@FOKAL_Ayiti
, a local organization working around the clock to help with Haiti’s recovery. 🇭🇹
Thank you to ALL who helped spread the word and or purchased a print!!
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✨ New free workshops ✨
Color grading with Aundre Larrow
Color grading with Jessy J Photo
Color grading with April Alexander
Join one or all of these sessions to improve your editing with leading industry tools! 👏🏾 Details:
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In one week, Mark Clennon (
@thisismarkc
) will be joining us for a Q&A conversation on Thursday, March 4th at 1pm ET.
💥 Powered by
@Lightroom
.
💥 RSVP:
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We’re SO excited to announce that our founder
@pollyirungu
will be appearing on 📺 The Kelly Clarkson Show TODAY to talk about our global community and directory of Black women and non-binary photographers!!! 🙌🏾🖤
Tune in to
@KellyClarksonTV
!!!
#HireBlackWomenPhotographers
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They’re a 10 but they want you to send them the RAW files.
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We just hit 15K on Instagram! 🎉
To celebrate, we want to start doing some takeovers on our page. If you’re interested, reply 👇🏾 or DM us!
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✨
@afropunk
x Black Women Photographers are proud to announce The Back and Blacker Than Ever Photo Pit Experience!!! ✨
Have you ever wanted to photograph an AFROPUNK festival? 👀 With an all-access pass? 👀
💥
#AfropunkxBWP
DETAILS: 💥
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