Photography by Laylah Amatullah Barrayn
Laylah has been a regular contributor to blackinformant.com informing readers of upcoming arts and entertainment events in the New York area. As a photographer and essay writer, her works have been seen in a wide range of venues. If you reside in the New York area, please show her your support.
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About Laylah:
Laylah Amatullah Barrayn is a self-taught photographer. She recieved her first official assignment in 1997 to shoot the Million Woman March, she was 17 years old. Since then, her images has been published and exhibited in several NYC galleries. She recently exhibited at Latin Collector Gallery, Museum of Contemporary Art in DC and has an upcoming group show at Art Gotham Gallery. Her photography has been included in BLACK: A Celebration of a Culture, co-published by the Smithsonian and edited by Dr. Deborah Willis.
Although she enjoys the art of photography, her first love is essay writing and creative non-fiction. As a writer, she has been on assignment in Africa and Asia covering jazz and the arts. Her journalism has appeared in Vibe, The Source, America, Complex and other publications. Last year the Jazz Journalism Association awarded her the Atkins Fellowship for jazz journalism. Her essay Moving On was included in the anthology My Soul to His Spirit. She has studied at New York University and Universitie Cheikh Anta Diop, Senegal, West Africa.
Laylah began her career in the arts as a dancer. For years she studied many dance disciplines and techniques, including Pointe and Dunham, with dance anthropologist Dr. Joan Burroughs and Jean Destine, founder of the Haitian National Dance Company.
Laylah is a native New Yorker residing in Brooklyn. (Click here to see some of her works on her new blog)
BLACK AND TAN FANTASY
Photography by Laylah Amatullah Barrayn
Opening Reception:
February 5, 2006, 4pm
Light refreshments will be served
On View: February 4 - 28, 2006
Calabar Imports
820 Washington Avenue (between Lincoln Pl. and St. Johns Pl.)
Brooklyn, New York 11238
718-638-4288
Black and Tan Fantasy is an intimate exhibition of subtle moments from my travels. From Brooklyn to Kuala Lumpur, the images are visual stations along my continuous journey to document the world through letters and lenses.
*View flier and leave message: http://blackandtanfantasy.blogspot.com/
Directions to Calabar Imports:
2/3 Subway to Eastern Parkway/Brooklyn Museum
B45 to St. Johns Place & Washington Ave
**Black and Tan Fantasy is the title of a Duke Ellington composition.
