Mambu Badu's Second Annual Call for Entries

Check out the recent Dodge & Burn interview with the founding women of the Mambu Badu collective. I also urge any women photographers of African descent to submit your work - see details below:

Mambu Badu, a photography collective founded in 2010 with a mission to find, expose and nurture women artists of African descent, is seeking work for our second annual publication. Our first issue, Memory, garnered positive reviews for the photographers featured: Nikita Gale, Sheree Swann, Tonika Johnson, Jen Everett, Yodith Dammlash and Nkechi Ebubedike.

We are officially a year old and we invite you to submit your work for our second publication. There is no planned theme for this issue; we're looking for collage, conceptual, documentary and all work in between.

Please submit the following by December 20, 2011: A complete body of work (8-14 images), in either jpg or gif format.

Australian Aboriginal Artist Fiona Foley

From the series HHH (Hedonistic Honky Haters) by Fiona Foley

Photography is just one of the mediums in which indigenous Australian artist Fiona Foley explores themes of sex, race and history and their various manifestations within her own life and Aboriginal culture.

Photographer Interview: Carol Sachs

Whether using film or digital, you can't get a great image without a unique eye. Photographer Carol Sachs is yet another example of someone who's visual perspective on life translates so well through the medium of photography, irrespective of what camera she's holding.

Friend Carol Sachs on Facebook.

D&B: Where are you from?

CS: I am from a city called Curitiba, in the south of Brazil, but currently share my time between São Paulo and London.