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Qiana Mestrich

Qiana Mestrich

Mother, Photographer, MFA Candidate (ICP-Bard), SEO, Blogger @ Dodge & Burn: Diversity in Photography History
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A Black Nurse, a German Soldier and an Unlikely WWII Romance http://cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/2013... - http://qiana.tumblr.com/post...
A Black Nurse, a German Soldier and an Unlikely WWII Romance http://cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/05/15/a-black-nurse-a-german-soldier-and-an-unlikely-wwii-romance/
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Artist Interview: Rico Gatson - http://dodgeburn.blogspot.com/2013...
Artist Interview: Rico Gatson
April 19 from Dodge & Burn: Diversity in... - Comment - Share
Gotta feel better about shelling out $113 for a monthly metro card with this new Nick Cave design! - http://qiana.tumblr.com/post...
Gotta feel better about shelling out $113 for a monthly metro card with this new Nick Cave design!
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Yes!
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NewsletterDirectory.co | Report Card - https://www.newsletterdirectory.co/report-...
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Vevey International Photo Award, 2013/2014 - 33K euro grant to develop a project http://www.images.ch/2013... deadline March 10
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Black Artists: 30 Contemporary Art Makers Under 40 You Should Know (PHOTOS) http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013...
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knowledgeequalsblackpower: iamonebeing: “…the Racial Contract also explains the actual astonishing historical record of European atrocity against nonwhites, which quantitatively and qualitatively, in numbers and horrific detail, cumulatively dwarfs all other kinds of ethnically/racially motivated massacres put together: la leyenda negra- the black... - http://qiana.tumblr.com/post...
knowledgeequalsblackpower: iamonebeing: “…the Racial Contract also explains the actual astonishing historical record of European atrocity against nonwhites, which quantitatively and qualitatively, in numbers and horrific detail, cumulatively dwarfs all other kinds of ethnically/racially motivated massacres put together: la leyenda negra- the black legend- of Spanish colonialism, defamatory only in its invidious singling out of the Spanish, since it would later be emulated by Spain’s envious competitors, the Dutch, French, and English, seeking to create legends of their own; the killing through mass murder and disease of 95 percent of the indigenous population of the Americas, with recent revisionist scholarship…having dramatically increased the estimates of the preconquest population, so that- at roughly 100 million victims- this would easily rank as the single greatest act of genocide in human history; the infamous slogans, nos somewhat embarrassing to a generation living under a different phase of the Contract- “Kill the nits, and you’ll have no lice!” as American cavalryman John House advised when he shot a Sauk infant at the Wisconsin Bad Axe massacre, and “The only good injun is a dead injun”; the slow-motion Holocaust of African slavery, which is not estimated by some to have claimed thirty to sixty million lives in Africa, the Middle Passage, and the “seasoning” process, even before the degradation and destruction of slave life in the Americas; the casual acceptance of no crime, just the necessary clearing of the territory of pestilential “varmints” and “critters,” of the random killing of stray Indians in America or Aborigines in Australia or Bushmen in South Africa…the death toll from the direct and indirect consequences of the forced labor of the colonial economies, such as the millions (original estimates as high as ten million) who died in the Belgian Congo as a result of Leopold II’s quest for rubber, though strangely it is to Congolese rather than European savagery that a “heart of darkness” is attributed…the pattern of of unpunished rape, torture, and massacre in the twentieth-century colonial/neocolonial and in part racial wars of Algeria (during the course of which about one million Algerians, or one-tenth of the country’s population, perished) and Vietnam, illustrated by the fact that Lieutenant Willian Calley was the only American convicted of war crimes in Vietnam and, for his role in directing the mass murder of five hundred women, children, and old men (or, more cautiously and qualifiedly, “Oriental human beings,” as the deposition put it), was sentenced to life at hard labor but had his sentence quickly commuted by presidential intervention to “house arrest” at his Fort Benning bachelor apartment, where he remained for three years before being freed on parole, then and now doubtless a bit puzzled by the fuss, since, as the told the military psychiatrists examining him, “he did not feel as if he were killing humans but rather that they were animals with whom one could not speak or reason.” ”— Charles W. Mills, The Racial Contract  White history, everybody.  Readabookson
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Congrats to photographer Delphine Diallo for making the 2013 PDN 30 list! http://pdn30.pdnevents.com/gallery...
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hyperallergic: Browse Thousands of Amazing Historic Brooklyn Photos Jamel Shabazz, “East Flatbush 1982″ (1982) (all images via Brooklyn Visual Heritage) History nerds… View Post - http://qiana.tumblr.com/post...
hyperallergic: Browse Thousands of Amazing Historic Brooklyn Photos Jamel Shabazz, “East Flatbush 1982″ (1982) (all images via Brooklyn Visual Heritage) History nerds… View Post
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because you said all women end up marrying their fathers - http://qiana.tumblr.com/post...
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thefemaletyrant: Phyllis is a moving and atmospheric portrait of a ‘psychic’ vampire, a woman obsessed with synthetic Nollywood dramas, that lives alone in Lagos, Nigeria. The central idea of this short experimental film is the practise and significance of wig-wearing in Nollywood film; a practise the director has invested with deeper... - http://qiana.tumblr.com/post...
thefemaletyrant: Phyllis is a moving and atmospheric portrait of a ‘psychic’ vampire, a woman obsessed with synthetic Nollywood dramas, that lives alone in Lagos, Nigeria. The central idea of this short experimental film is the practise and significance of wig-wearing in Nollywood film; a practise the director has invested with deeper psychological as well as science-fiction layers. Underpinning this central idea however is a critique of the unforgiving treatment of single women in Nollywood and Nigeria. The film is an example of what the director, Zina Saro-Wiwa, has termed “alt-Nollywood”, a genre that plays with and reworks certain narrative, stylistic and visual conventions of Nollywood. Phyllis explores the gothic possibilities of the Nollywood aesthetic creating a new kind of low-budget atmospheric film that is very much of Nollywood and yet subverts the genre. Using Nollywood to subvert Nollywood.
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Photo: hyperallergic: Browse Thousands of Amazing Historic Brooklyn Photos Jamel Shabazz, “East Flatbush... http://qiana.tumblr.com/post...
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because you said all women end up marrying their fathers - warsanshire: i’ll marry a photograph at the... http://qiana.tumblr.com/post...
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Saving Face: The Portraits of South African Photographer Zanele Muholi http://lightbox.time.com/2013...
February 26 from Twitter - Comment - Share
Dodge & Burn's Int'l Photo Festivals page updated with Australia's HeadOn Photo Festival http://dodgeburn.blogspot.com/p... via @HeadOnPhotoFest
February 22 from Twitter - Comment - Share
New photo series plus installation pics from "Dead Ringers," my recent ICP-Bard MFA solo thesis show http://www.qianamestrich.com/
February 22 from Twitter - Comment - Share
Amid Turmoil at Museo del Barrio, Its Director Steps Down http://www.nytimes.com/2013...
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RT @davemorin: Information technology in Africa: The next frontier | The Economist http://www.economist.com/news...
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Iman and Naomi Campbell Talk Lack of Diversity in Fashion http://touch.vibevixen.com/vibevix...
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Report from Black Portraiture[s]: The Black Body in the West http://arcthemagazine.com/arc...
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Dodge & Burn's Int'l #Photography Festivals page has been updated with the South Sweden Photo Biennial http://dodgeburn.blogspot.com/p...
February 15 from Twitter - Comment - Share
RT @voxefx: 30 Black Women in Indie Music You Should Know http://www.forharriet.com/2013... via @prismatic
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New show opening 2/14 "eMERGING: Visual Art & Music in a Post-Hip-Hop Era" http://mocada.org/2013... via @mocada_brooklyn
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Did you know there was a Paris Photo happening in Los Angeles this year? April 26 - 28th, find out more http://losangeles.parisphoto.com/... #ParisPhoto
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Other Half of Courbet’s Infamous “Origin of the World” Discovered in Paris #NSFW http://hyperallergic.com/64796... via @hyperallergic
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Copenhagen Photo Festival is looking for submissions - deadline March 15th http://www.copenhagenphotofestival.com/news...
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Dodge & Burn's Int'l Photo Festivals page has been updated with Croatia's festival in Zagreb http://dodgeburn.blogspot.com/p... via @OrganVida
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Great selection of Book on Photography in the Middle East on view at the @ICPlibrary http://twitter.com/mestric...
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