Photos: Courageous Self-Portraits In Lagos FEAKILAH WALKERSep. 25, 2012 08:23PM EST Delphine Fawundu led a group of 5 burgeoning female Nigerian photographers as a part of her artist residency at the African Artist Foundation in Lagos. *Jenevieve Aken Delphine Fawundu led a group of 5 burgeoning female Nigerian photographers in a […]

LIFE IS A RUNWAY; African Style Glows in Brooklyn By RUTH LA FERLA Published: October 27, 2011 A salvaged shipping container may seem an unpromising showcase for cutting-edge style. But not to Hekima Hapa, who set up shop in one of the rectangular spaces scattered throughout the Dekalb Market in […]

Emma Reverter Nueva York  Jueves, 1 de diciembre de 2011 http://www.bbc.com/mundo/video_fotos/2011/12/111201_fotos_touched_dia_mundial_sida_jgc.shtml

by Phoebe Neidl (phoebe@brooklyneagle.net), published online 02-16-2010 One reads a lot about the struggle for affordable housing here in New York, and in Brooklyn in particular, where we are experiencing the mixed blessing of gentrification perhaps more than any other borough. A new exhibit at the Brooklyn Historical Society — one […]

BY MIKE MCLAUGHLIN     Tuesday, February 2, 2010, 3:43 PM THREE BROOKLYN friends discovered art in affordable housing. A photographer and two filmmakers from Tivoli Towers, a huge Crown Heights building, pointed their cameras on daily life in the close-knit Mitchell-Lama complex confronting deteriorating conditions and gentrification, and produced a real picture of the community. “What we […]

A trio of tenants at one Brooklyn high-rise are documenting their efforts to preserve the building’s future. NY1’s Shazia Khan filed the following report. At the age of five, Delphine Fawundu moved into Tivoli Towers in the Crown Heights section of Brooklyn. “I lived on the 15th floor so I […]

Commitment-phobia Though “Committed to the Image” is itself noncommittal in its approach to contemporary black photography, it includes some strikingly beautiful pictures. By Mark Stevens  The poster for Committed to the Image: Contemporary Black Photographers is a challenging picture by Delphine A. Fawundu called Patiently Waiting. It depicts a naked woman, seen from the back, […]