The Photographer’s Green Book Directory
3Dot Zine is a publication and forum for invited artists to elaborate on marginalized concerns.
a BLACK creative’s guide is an unapologetically BLACK platform that is a monthly meet up for melanated people.
A G Thing is a platform using various art forms as tools of healing and liberation.
A New Nothing presents a series of two-person, image-based conversations.
AETHER is a bi-annual, independently published arts, culture and fashion magazine for young creatives.
Africa Is a Country is a site of opinion, analysis, and new writing on and from the African left. It was founded by Sean Jacobs in 2009.
African Women in Photography is an organisation/community dedicated to elevating and celebrating the work of women and non binary photographers from Africa.
Afrodyssée is a non profit association which ensures the promotion of African contemporary creation.
The AfroFuturist Affair uses Afrofuturism and Sci-Fi as vehicles for expression, creativity, education, agency, and liberation in communities of color.
Black Visual Culture. Blackness in a Visual Continuum.
all SHE makes' goal is to offer a curated space to locate women artists from any corner of the world.
Archives & Futures is a podcast series for and about Latinx and Indigenous visual artists of the Americas. Hosted, recorded, edited and produced by Ivan Lozano.
The Archivists and Archives of Color section is an interest group within the Society of American Archivists.
Art for Black Lives allows artists to donate fine art digital prints for sale, with all profits providing resource support to the Black Trans Community.
Art Sanctuary Philadelphia's mission is to use the power of Black Art to transform individuals, create and build community and foster cultural understanding.
Artist in the Room provides professional visual and performing artists with a variety of affordable methods and strategies to ramp-up and super charge their creative ambitions and practices.
An agency for artists in a post-capitalist world, and a resource for organizations to humanize and rebuild systems.
Pushing artists and the public to see through another perspective or shall we say an artsy window.
Asia-Pacific Photobook Archive (APPA) is a not-for-profit open-access physical archive of self-published and independent photobooks.
The Association of African American Museums (AAAM) is a non-profit member organization established to support African and African American focused museums nationally and internationally, as well as the professionals who protect, preserve and interpret African and African American art, history and culture.
The Audre Lorde Project is a Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Two Spirit, Trans and Gender Non-Conforming People of Color community organizing center, focusing on the New York City area.
The Authority Collective is a group of more than 200 womxn, non-binary and gender expansive people of color working in the photography, film and VR/AR industries.
Black Artist Research Space is a creative collective that presents collaborations between artists.
Be Reel Black Cinema is disrupting the myth that Black cinema is rare+inaccessible by supporting Black filmmakers, one monthly meet-up at a time.
The Beautiful Project is collectively utilizing our voice & power to advance the representational justice and wellness of Black women and girls.
the BETTYS is an art collective celebrating, collaborating with non-male artists across the world.
Founded in 2015, by Renata Cherlise, Black Archives is a multimedia platform that brings a spotlight to the Black experience. Through an evolving visual exploration, Black Archives provides a dynamic accessibility to a Black past, present, and future.
BlackBoard, Northwestern University’s Black student magazine, serves as an open forum for student expression.
The Black Box Press Foundation wants to recognize and honor the vital role artists have in political and social history as well as be a source to continue the rich and varied tradition of artists having an active and leading role in social dialogue.
A publication focused on spotlighting Black photographers whose work speaks to the diversity of the global Black community.
The Black Lesbian Archives is a hub for Black Lesbians, allies & the LGBTQIA+ community to submit Black Lesbian Archives (articles, posters, flyers, mixtapes, videos, photos, audio, publication, poetry, etc of Black Lesbians to this outlet in efforts to preserve the stories of our lives.
Black Lunch Table’s (BLT) primary aim is the production of discursive sites, wherein artists and local community members engage in dialogue on a variety of critical issues. BLT mobilizes a democratic rewriting of contemporary cultural history by animating discourse around and among the people living it.
Black Matriarch Archive is archive dedicated to celebrating Black matriarchs of the African Diaspora.
Black Rock is a multidisciplinary artist-in-residence program founded by renowned artist Kehinde Wiley in 2019.
The Black School (TBS) is an experimental art school teaching Black/PoC students and allies to become agents of change through art workshops on radical Black politics and public interventions that address local community needs.
The BlackStar Film Festival is an annual celebration of the visual and storytelling traditions of the African diaspora and of global communities of color,
Black Trans Femmes in the Arts is an American grassroots collective that provides support to Black trans women and Black trans nonbinary femmes in the arts.
Black queer feminist community library & archive. Cultivating possibilities and freedom!
Black Voices for Black Justice is a $30K award for Black leaders in the DMV to continue funding their activism and community work.
Black Women Photographers aims to disrupt the notion that it is difficult to discover and commission Black creatives. Dedicated to providing a resource for the industry’s gatekeepers.
Blackearth Lab is an intergenerational BIPOC community of artists, craftspeople, designers, organizers, and educators in Providence, Rhode Island.
The BDC uses community-based documentary practice and education to explore vital issues, stimulate critical thought, and drive social change.
Blue Sky’s mission is to educate the public about photography through exhibitions, publications, and dialogue; and to further the careers and artistic development of the artists shown.
To research, collect, preserve, and interpret for public enrichment the history, art, and culture of African Americans with an emphasis on California and the western United States
The Center for Afrofuturist Studies is an Iowa City-based artist residency program for artists of color who explore race, technology, & the diaspora.
The Center for Photographers of Color seeks to promote emerging and under-represented artists of color working within photography, digital imaging, and other lens-based media.
The CFR works to foster racial reconciliation by confronting the legacy of slavery.
Come Monday is a collective journal, a gathering, time capsule, like the Sankofa bird, reflecting back on the year 2020 and hopefully learning.
Contemporary And (C&) is a dynamic platform for reflecting and connecting ideas and discourses on contemporary visual arts.
CRWNMAG exists to create a progressive dialogue around natural hair and the women who wear it through beautiful content, thoughtful commentary, hair inspiration and resources – all in premium print form.
Cultural Capacity Magazine is a new online magazine representing black culture & creatives through global fashion, lifestyle, art and design.
Dark Study is an experimental program centered on art. This program is a place of resource redistribution aimed towards nothing less than liberatory ends
Darkside Collective is an online space for artists working across all mediums to connect and gain exposure. Specializing in working with emerging artists, our team also aims to provide resources and information to help with career establishment and increased artist visibility.
Darkroom Detroit is a 501c3 non-profit dedicated to increasing photography access, education, and visual literacy in Detroit.
Deep Red Press is a Texas based independent platform, publisher and art-book store that features regional photographers and artists who are from, working in, or have made work related to the Texas identity that does not traditionally define its perception abroad.
Diversify Photo is a community of BIPOC and non-western photographers, editors, and visual producers working to break with the predominantly colonial and patriarchal eye through which history and the mass media has seen and recorded the images of our time.
Breaking the canon and making a kaleidoscope of diverse perspectives founded by art historian, curator and researcher Lisa Lambrechts Cruz
Don't Smile's purpose is simple - to carve out a space both online and in-print exclusively dedicated for showcasing exceptional photography by women, both established and emerging.
For the past seven years, Emmazed has been a station of community-driven projects designed to empower artists and encourage transparency.
En Foco, Inc. is a non-profit that supports contemporary primarily U.S.-based photographers of African, Asian, Latino, Native American, and Pacific Islander heritage.
Engaging Collections is a residency and online journal at the intersections of art + equity with libraries, archives, and special collections.
A search for clarity; conversations on photography, ethics, and social change.
Femgrafía es una plataforma de difusión e investigación sobre el trabajo realizado por fotógrafas emergentes y establecidas en Latinoamérica y España. Creado por Karla Guerrero.
Fifth Wheel Press is committed to publishing diverse, intersectional titles that amplify marginalized voices and shed light on work by artists that would fall through the cracks in the institutions that have failed them for years.
Firecracker was established in 2011 by Fiona Rogers to promote women working in photography, through a variety of online features, networking opportunities and public events
For Freedoms is an artist-led organization that models and increases creative civic engagement, discourse and direct action.
Foto Féminas is a platform established by Verónica Sanchis Bencomo who is interested in promoting through monthly online features the work of female photographers working in Latin America and the Caribbean.
Las Fotos Project is a community-based nonprofit organization that inspires teenage girls through photography, mentorship, and self-expression. Offering year-round programming, we provide girls with access to professional cameras, quality instruction and workshops that encourage them to explore their identity, build leadership and advocacy skills, and strengthen their social and emotional well-being.
Fraction Magazine is an online venue dedicated to showcasing thoughtful photographic projects from a global community.
A holistic approach to hiring underrepresented talent.
From Here On Out is a collective platform centered around experimental publishing, conversations, & curatorial projects. We are rooted in the fringe, the marginalized, the poetic, and the expansion of image-making.
gal-dem is a new media publication, committed to telling the stories of people of colour from marginalised genders. With our online and print magazine, we’re addressing inequality and misrepresentation in the industry through platforming the creative and editorial work of our community across essays, opinion, news, arts, music, politics and lifestyle content.
Gallery Kulture is a collection of international, contemporary fine art photography and fine art.
GAZE is a biannual magazine celebrating the diversity of female narratives, through first-person formats - From intimate storytelling to immersive reporting.
Girl Gaze connects a diverse, curated and global community of the best established and emerging womxn and non-binary creative talent with the world’s best companies
The Gordon Parks Foundation strives to preserve the work of Gordon Parks through exhibitions, books, and electronic media and supporting artistic & educational activities.
Greenhouse Auctions is an online auction platform designed to support artists, promote diversity, and provide a welcoming platform for buyers.
Digital archive and curatorial platform for women’s filmmaking from South-West Asia and North Africa.
The Heavy Collective is an Australian online/offline platform dedicated to the showcase and discussion of contemporary photography.
Feminist art collective addressing art historical gaps through praxis, research, and pedagogy.
Hillman Grad productions is a development and production company committed to creating art that goes against the status quo and gives a platform to marginalised storytellers.
The photography department at Howard University in Washington D.C.
Homie House Press is a skeleton bones crew of femmes creating + publishing in the foto book medium. We are photographers + book makers + educators holding space for and with underrepresented communities.
Humanize the Numbers is a collaborative photography project inside Michigan Department of Corrections facilities, bringing together men incarcerated within the MDOC and students from the University of Michigan to create images about the personal experiences of those directly impacted by mass incarceration.
Humble Arts Foundation is committed to promoting and supporting new photography, and dedicated to the artistic and professional development of those who practice it.
Indigenous Photograph is a space to elevate the work of Indigenous visual journalists and bring balance to the way we tell stories about Indigenous people and spaces. Our mission is to support the media industry in hiring more Indigenous photographers to tell the stories of their communities and to reflect on how we tell these stories.
The International Center of Photography is the world’s leading institution dedicated to photography and visual culture.
The Isis Nicole Magazine is an annual print & digital entertainment publication that celebrates the gifts and messages of contemporary artists worldwide.
IFLA! is a critically acclaimed independent magazine with a fresh take on climate change. Printed bi-annually, we find the ground between science and activism.
Kris Graves Projects collaborates with artists to create limited edition publications and archival prints, focusing on contemporary photography and works on paper that address issues of race, identity, equity, gender, sexuality, and class.
Family Photo Archives of the Latinx Diaspora
Latinx Project NYU
LENSCRATCH is an online platform dedicated to supporting and celebrating the photographic arts and photographic artists through exposure, discussion, community collaboration, and education.
Light Leaked is an bi-monthly online photography magazine that creates community, inspiration, and dialogue.
Look at Art. Get Paid. (LAAGP) is a socially engaged art project that pays people who don’t visit art museums to visit one as guest critics of the art and its institution.
Loose Joints is an independent publishing house collaborating with leading and emerging artists on contemporary approaches to photography in book form.
Ma's House Project is led by Shinnecock artist Jeremy Dennis whose goal is to create an art space for BIPOC on Shinnecock.
Mamie & Weaver’s Ultra is a holding space for family, friends & neighbours in West Philly, through art, education, architecture, design and radical optimism.
Mare residency
The spirit of this club is an exchange of ideas, photographs, and a community coming together to spend time with each other. Marble Hill was founded on radical inclusiveness and generosity.
The Museum of Contemporary African Diasporan Arts (MoCADA) uses the visual and performing arts as a point of departure for exploring new artistic production across a variety of disciplines.
MONOLITH EDITIONS was founded by Kris Graves and is a Black-owned publishing house dedicated to showcasing work from artists of color across mediums that address issues of race, identity, equity, gender, sexuality, and class.
Farmville Virginia’s former Robert Russa Moton High School, now a National Historic Landmark and museum, is the birthplace of America’s student-led civil rights revolution.
As South India’s first major private art museum, The Museum of Art & Photography aims to take art and culture to the heart of the community, making it accessible to diverse audiences, and to create a museum-going culture that encourages people to experience art and heritage in new ways.
Inclusive creative community centering on Muslim women.
A contemporary art center that displays the work of African-American artists in 4 exhibition spaces in Miami.
Niggas Eatin is a tastefully offensive podcast featuring two black filmmakers weighing in on media and entertainment.
We focus primarily on works that break boundaries in film politically and artistically. Womanist in their content and experimental in form, often these are some of the most challenging for a marginalized filmmaker to create and distribute.
NIA is a Toronto-based not-for-profit organization that supports, showcases and promotes an appreciation of arts from across the African Diaspora.
Nka focuses on publishing critical work that examines contemporary African and African Diaspora art within the modernist and postmodernist experience.
Nicola Vassell gallery
NOAAM
North Carolina Black Artists for Liberation
not/nowhere is an artist workers’ cooperative that programmes workshops, screenings, exhibitions and other events.
No! Wahala Magazine is Africa's first contemporary photography magazine championing authentic visual stories by African Creatives.
Osengwa is a virtual marketplace showcasing exceptionally beautiful things of African origin.
Ourselves Black is a biannual, mental health resource magazine for the Black Community, beautifully written and designed to focus on our exploration of our mental selves through a select number of engaging resources, interviews, stories and photography.
PFAC was founded in 2020 by Panamanian artist María Raquel Cochez in response to the difficulties women face as artists in our region. We are a collective of empowered female artists working in Panama or Panamanian artists working abroad with mature bodies of work and research practices.
PARISTEXASLA is a Los Angeles-based contemporary art gallery.
Leeds-based zine championing Creatives of Colour in the North of England
Supporting BIPOC and youth film photographers in the development and scanning of work focused on social justice and community documentation,
Philly Art Collective Gallery is an artist run collective promoting artists in the Greater Philadelphia area via events and pop-up shows
The Photo Bill of Rights is authored by a group of individuals from grassroots organizations working toward dismantling harmful practices in the visual journalism and editorial media industry.
PHOTO–EMPHASIS is dedicated to showcasing contemporary photographic art by established and emerging artists. Through features and exhibitions, we highlight work and research by artists both inside and outside academic institutions.
Photoville is a New York-based non-profit organization that works to promote a wider understanding and increased access to the art of photography for all.
PhotoSouthAsia is a noncommercial, nonprofit project of the MurthyNAYAK foundation.
PIX is about investigating and engaging with broad and expansive fields of contemporary photographic practice in India, ranging from the application, conceptual standing and adaptability of photography to its subjects: its movement, transmission, appropriation and distinct relation to the allied arts.
PREME is an independent black-owned magazine published monthly. Our content focuses on emerging trends within entertainment, music, and pop culture. Our mission is to empower creators and help them bridge gaps in their careers by giving them a platform to express themselves, their values, and creative goals.
Project for Empty Space is an nonprofit organization dedicated to creating safe and equitable spaces for audiences and artists alike. PES is committed to cultivating discourse around important social issues through the catalytic lens of contemporary art. Our mission is to promote artists whose work is oriented around social impact; and to initiate conversations that engage issues of marginality, intersectionality, and cultural tolerance.
A platform and creative studio dedicated to advancing equity in image making made for and by people of color.
Queer Art's purpose is to create a diverse and vibrant community through the support of LGBTQ+ art and artists across generations and disciplines.
A zine for all that is Queer, Black, and Brown
Radiant is a bi-annual print and digital health magazine for the Black woman. Our mission is to tell our own health stories and inspire Black women to live their healthiest, happiest and most meaningful life.
Radical Black Girl inspires transformation of self and communities in hopes to change our realities through art.
A website dedicated to support the Black Lives Matter movement & share anti-racist resources.
ReFramed is a Midlands-based network for Black, Asian and other people of colour interested in producing photographic visual art.
A group of independent writers, photographers and publishers from around the world got together to talk about photography within the context of the current sociopolitical moment. New conversations are published sporadically. Contributions are welcomed.
The Robert Giard Foundation promotes the use of Giard’s work for educational purposes, and supports continued scholarship about LGBTQ+ literature in America, as well as LGBTQ+ movements and activism more generally
A Canadian Photojournalism Mentorship for Black, Indigenous and People of Colour
Root Work Journal is a collective of artists, thinkers, dreamers, of black people who refuse to be undertaken by the captivity of this present world.
Saint Lucy Books aims to publish idiosyncratic books that combine words and images that investigate the marginal, hidden, and parallel histories of photography.
A photographic community platform for emerging and established artists.
Salty is a 100% independent, membership supported newsletter, buoyed by the voices of women, trans and non binary contributors from all over the world.
Founded by Harry Belafonte, Sankofa.org educates, motivates, and activates artists and allies in service of grassroots movements and equitable change.
Scalawag is a journalism and storytelling organization that illuminates dissent, unsettles dominant narratives, pursues justice and liberation, and stands in solidarity with marginalized people and communities in the South.
See In Black is a collective of Black photographers who invest in, uplift and build community around Black visibility.
A journal of film and visual culture from @blackstarfest.
a Baltimore Based Collective focused on giving space to BIPOC in personal and/or professional pursuit of the arts and humanities. Together, We’re Sustaining Ourselves
Shasha Movies is a new, independent streaming service for Middle East and North African cinema.
Sindikit is a collaborative art project created to support experimental work, to promote practice-based research, and to foster art-centered conversations.
Sixty Inches From Center is a non-profit online arts publication and archiving initiative that supports and promotes art and writing that thrives primarily outside of mainstream historical narratives.
Small Talk is a collective of six women who explore the nature of what it means to be a visual storyteller, pool resources, provide support and critique to one another, and facilitate community events and discussions.
Social Documentary Network uses the power of photography to promote global awareness.
Social Practice Queens (SPQ) is a unique pedagogical experiment and educational platform that supports the integration of studio art with interdisciplinary research, community collaboration, environmental justice and critical urbanism.
Soft Lightning Studio is an independent publisher of contemporary photography. We intend to hold space for marginalized photographers to share their work and their narratives.
South Asia Archive celebrates the South Asian diversity and the queer community.
Southern Fried Queer Pride (SFQP) is an Atlanta-based non-profit organization empowering Black queer and QTPOC centered communities in the South through the arts.
SPILLMAN | BLACKWELL is a gallery and consultancy featuring a diverse roster of artists, ranging from emerging to seasoned talent.
The Studio Museum in Harlem is the nexus for artists of African descent locally, nationally, and internationally and for work that has been inspired and influenced by black culture.
Study Hall seeks an alternative approach to photographic education by taking students beyond the screen and directly to the printed image of artists being discussed in their classes.
The Sustainable Arts Foundation supports artists and writers with children. We make annual unrestricted cash awards to individuals; at least half of these awards are made to applicants of color. We also support artist residencies in their efforts to make their programs more family friendly.
sweet-thang is an independent print (and sometimes online) zine featuring work by Black women and non-binary Black folks around the world, focusing on themes of resistance, healing and free artistic expression.
Syla Studio dedicates its space to centering the multidimensional narratives of artists, writers, and curators through exhibitions and programming.
Taji Mag is the epitome of ‘Cultural Drip’ – elevating Black brands, narratives, and imagery to new levels of Black Excellence. We embody the traditional and modern royalty of Pan-African people via our quarterly digital and print publication, adornments, and virtual and live events.
Digital zine and creative studio/young creative collective.
Asheville’s only Black and Brown owned Independent Tech Repair and Consulting shop.
Temporary Unlearning Academy is a migratory school currently based in Calabarzon, Philippines, interested in queering artistic and cultural formation.
The Tenth is a media organization that documents the history, ideas, aesthetics, and politics of the Black LGBTQ+ community through their digital platform, events and biannual publication.
Cinema Advocates. We promote and exhibit the work of film and video artist at various events, host small festivals, and program exclusive shows
The Tittymag is an intersectional feminist art collective. They offer the space for creative talent, who is engaged in feminism, inclusion or empowerment
Based in Vermont, USA, the Too Tired Project is a 501c3 non-profit photography initiative committed to helping those struggling with depression by offering a place for collective creative expression.
The Toppled Monuments Archive is a radical international collective that has come together to create the most comprehensive, accessible, open source online platform of recorded toppled, defaced, contested and removed monuments.
Tough Skin is the first vitiligo empowerment organization in the world.
The TRiiBE is a digital media platform that is reshaping the narrative of Black Chicago and giving ownership back to the people.
Trinity Square Video is a space to re-imagine media arts. It is one of Canada’s first artist-run centres and its oldest media arts centre.
Ubuntu Fine Art Gallery is Philadelphia's first and only fine art photography gallery of a single artist's work.
Veteranas and Rucas is a community generated archival project by multidisciplinary artist and educator Guadalupe Rosales.
Vibrance Art Exchange is a program made by BIPOC, LGBTQIA+, and Womyn Artists, for them. They aim to build an artist controlled art economy through the facilitation of community.
The Village's mission is to amplify the voices and aspirations of our North Philadelphia community by providing arts-based opportunities for self-expression and personal success that engage youth and their families, revitalize physical space, and preserve black heritage.
Void is a non profit organization focused on alternative publishing, exhibitions and education. Our goal is to engage in a series of projects around photography and other visual arts.
Black-owned digital platform celebrating inclusivity, self-love, & marginalized voices. Our brand new bi-weekly digital cover stories aim to capture and shine a light on multicultural vanguard creatives who push boundaries in fashion, art, music, and various other respective creative fields.
The Well is an art gallery of located in the heart of Blackwell/Manchester that explores art in many forms – from sculptures and architecture, to paintings and decorative arts.
The White Pube is the collaborative identity of Gabrielle de la Puente and Zarina Muhammad under which we write about art, video games and food
The Whole Story began in January 2017 in partnership with Phoenix Art Museum to elevate and celebrate Black narratives through personal storytelling. People work with curator and story coach, Rachel Egboro, to craft their stories for a live audience.
Venezuelan designer/artist Florencia Alvarado, American photographer Jeanette Spicer and Swedish designer Sara Duell, are the dykes behind WMN – a publication of lesbian art and poetry.
Highlighting womxn & non-binary creators working in photo based arts in NZ & AU.
Women Photograph is an initiative that launched in 2017 to elevate the voices of women* and nonbinary visual journalists.
MFON: Women Photographers of the African Diaspora is an exclusive and commemorative publication committed to establishing and representing a collective voice of women photographers of African descent.
By highlighting the work of female photographers who have documented conflicts, crises, and revolution in private realms and public spaces, WPR sheds light on personal and political experiences that are often overlooked or underrepresented.
By sharing the stories of cinema directed by women through events and media, Women Under The Influence challenge the misconceptions of the film world and push back against the industry’s bias.
Our mission is to highlight the contributions of women photographers to modern and contemporary art in order to rewrite the artistic canon and provoke social change.