Blackshutter

Photography | Creative Direction | Production | Podcast

Black Shutter Productions centers the Black perspective through creative expressions.

[Blackshutter @theblackshutter]

Build Your Network https://t.co/m28k7Y4l0i via photographer and publisher Kris Graves

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“Our limitations are actually what motivates us to go outside the box. If you remove that limitation from the start, you will have lazy photographers who don’t appreciate the growth process so they wouldn’t put in enough effort to become better versions of themselves.

[The Daily Show @TheDailyShow]

"There's something liberating about fighting an obvious enemy as opposed to one you have to prove exists." Trevor discusses the difference between racism in America and South Africa. #BetweenTheScenes

[Blackshutter @theblackshutter]

@nate_levine Social media is designed shorten attention spans. We can no longer place our value in the hands of a machine designed to devalue people. Make work that resonates with you and has a purpose beyond receiving a double tap.

[Nathan Levine @nate_levine]

Listen, not getting reactions to your photos does NOT make you a bad photographer

[Blackshutter @theblackshutter]

Tune in to Episode 57, where we speak with Chicago-based commercial and sports photographer Marcus Smith about breaking down his career goals into smaller steps.

Link to Ep 57: https://t.co/SZJsny1qJ0

[Blackshutter @theblackshutter]

You ain’t never lie my brother. Make our own garden, plant our own seeds, and grow our own flowers. This is the way.

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A museum celebrating Black hair is coming to Brooklyn at the end of Summer 2022. This is dope. This beautiful. We love to see our folks creating more safe spaces. Let’s get it! https://t.co/yokexkMF7a

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Look at this bad game of scrabble

[America the FLOP! @dayofthew333k]

Soooooo NOBODY in marketing looked at this and thought, let’s not. 🙂

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Beautiful portrait

[Artists of Colour @artistsofcolour]

WOMAN LOOKING FROM WINDOW, BELIZE, Earlie Hudnall, Jr., 1983

[Blackshutter @theblackshutter]

Which is why we are seeking out therapy and safe spaces more and more. We are not only seeking safe spaces but creating them. It’s the new form of survival. Stay up fam ✊🏿

[anthony geathers @BrooklynsOwn90]

@kazhar87 We feel pain, but the world got it to where its hard for us to express how much it hurts

[Blackshutter @theblackshutter]

For my Black photogs. What are your thoughts on getting calls to photograph #juneteenth events?

[RYAN LANDELL @RYANLANDELL]

Peeped ep.56 @theblackshutter w/fellow 🇯🇲 (well Jamerican) @ronbrodie. Dope Convo!
My line is "Make wrk w/a 🖕🏾 up" & as ◼️ creatives we hve 2 tread lightly till we succeed.
I only care abt making wrk that shows how @bhuetful we R. Thats my 🖕🏾, success B damned & I ❤️ my wrk.

[Blackshutter @theblackshutter]

We out tomorrow night! Come through to kick off opening night of Photoville 2022 with us. We will be presenting some work and chopping it up with some powerful and dope photographers. Details below 👇🏿

[Photoville @photoville]

Don't miss @theblackshutter "Behind the Shutter" live visual conversation at #Photoville2022 featuring @lovefullness, @JHensonScales, Keith Major, and Melissa Alexander 7:30PM this Satuday: https://t.co/l5exYhJzM6

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Photoville Festival Kick-off: 1PM-10PM, June 4. |📍@bbpnyc

[Blackshutter @theblackshutter]

Come through and kick off @Photoville Festival with us. It is such a dope honor to be able to share the work, stories, and experiences of so many talented Black photographers. We out here!!!

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Tune in to Ep 55, where we speak with a BK-based documentary photographer Laylah Amatullah Barrayn @lovefullness, about seeing the world from a global Black perspective.

Link to Ep: https://t.co/a4bGIBHKAt

[Blackshutter @theblackshutter]

@MpumeleloMacu We will make it happen brother.

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Tune in to Episode 53 where we speak with Los Angeles-based writer, photographer, and cultural strategist, Chérmelle Edwards @coffeetographer as she discusses the complex and diverse world of coffee as a culture.

Link to ep: https://t.co/AG5DqBeGh4

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What??!! Thank this is dope considering there is a limited amount of Black players in the NHL. Well done @grafikAmanda

[Amanda J. Cain @grafikAmanda]

Rising Stars: Meet the NHL's First Black Female Photographer Amanda J. Cain https://t.co/2z3uTytN14 via @photoshelter