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Art of Living Black

I will be part of a wonderful satellite exhibition and art show/sale through the Art of Living Black. The main show is at the Richmond Art Center. This weekend, February 26 and 27, from 11am-5pm please come out to the Mills College Student Union in Oakland. I will join with 14 other artists showing work. […]

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Grateful

I had an interesting experience the other day. I am trying to get back in shape, having gained some weight over the last few years. Not too much, but enough to make a difference in my health. Anyway, I started playing basketball again. It’s been at least 5 years.  I play after work and usually […]

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Back in action

…Been kind of busy getting going in Facebook, revising web site, and working with my father’s book.  The book is Jazz Idiom.  We’ve got some good prints of his images and those are beginning to sell.  I’ll let you know when his web site is up and running.

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Openings

I had a beautiful experience at both of the opening receptions a couple weeks back.  For the Art of Living Black, the wife/mother of the subject of the photograph “The Little One is Sleeping” showed up.  I hadn’t expected to see her, and it had been several years since we met.  That was wonderful. At […]

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On The Photo Essay

I’ve been pushing myself for a while about how to show my photographic work. There really is an entire process of getting ready for exhibitions, which is different than taking and looking at pictures. My work is evolving around the photo essay. These essays are a collection of several photos that tell a story. Traditionally, […]

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Brother with a baby

I had this recurring experience when my daughter was less than a year old.  I was working part time and we spent a lot of time going to the park, running errands, or whatever. I remember one time crossing the street by Lake Merritt.  I think that my daughter was in her stroller.  I was […]

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Welcome

Welcome to Fathers of Color! I’ve been at this project for a number of years and thought that it was time to really tell folks about it. It is about the presentation of images not really seen within the mainstream media. These are based on my life experiences, real things that I see and photos […]

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