Congratulations to CAAAP member ABENA SHARON DALE the 2011 winner of the 2011 CAAAP GRANT. She will receive a cash prize is $500 and a solo exhibition. Abena was the featured photographer in November. If you would like to view some of her images and learn more about this year's winner, visit the Abena Sharon Dale's section on the Photographers page of our website.
For those financial members interested in applying for the 2012 grant, please download The CAAAP Grant Proposal.
Through A Lens Darkly: Black Photographers and the Emergence of a People is a two-hour film that will explore the role of photography, since its rudimentary beginnings in the 1840s, in shaping the identity, aspirations, and social emergence of African Americans from slavery to the present.
Visit our Education and Network Page to view the trailer
Accepted Members of CAAAP can pay Annual dues via this website through paypal. You must be an accepted member to pay through this website. Go to the Join CAAAP page of this website.
Check out this excellent write up by By Ken Ilio from the Chicago Photography Examiner on the photography exhibition at the Woodson Regional Library showcasing the works of members of the Chicago Alliance of African American Photographers.
Thanks Ken!
CAAAP Featured Photographer
Each month CAAAP will feature the photography and info of one of our members. This month we highlight the images of our past 2011 CAAAP FEATURED PHOTOGRAPHERS. Flip through the best of our 2011 images.
How well do you know the basic terms and elelments of photography? Take CAAAP basic Photography Quiz. The answers can be found on our Education and Networking page of this website.
We are the Chicago Alliance of African American Photographers. Founded by Leslie Adkins, Bob Black, Martha Brock, Milbert O. Brown Jr., Terry Harris, Brent Jones and Lee Landry. Our mission is to photographically document the culture and history of the African-American/African communities in both the Greater Chicago area and throughout the world as well as providing ongoing education for our members. We meet CAAAP members meet the third Sunday of every month at the South Side Community Art Center 3831 S. Michigan, Chicago, IL from 2pm until 4pm(unless otherwise noted) to discuss learn and explore photography and provide a working network for its membership. CAAAP is a non-profit organization and membership is open to all beginners, amateurs and professionals This site contains information about our Organization, meetings, award winning photography of our members, and more.
Our Photographers
Over the ensuing years CAAAP members and their work have been featured in Chicago’s daily newspapers, from the Chicago Defender, Chicago Tribune, and the Chicago Sun-Times. Members have participated in education lectures and exhibits at Loyola University, Northwestern University, University of Illinois –Chicago and Roosevelt University, along with appearances on local media, where they were interviewed on Chicago radio stations, WVON, and WBEZ and television stations, CLTV, NBC-TV, ABC-TV and written about in Vibe Magazine.
CAAAP FLASH BACK
The Journey Magazine
In March of 1999, on a cold winters day, seven Chicago photographers; Leslie Adkins, Bob Black, Martha Brock, Milbert Brown, Terry Harris, Brent Jones, and Lee Landry organized and founded The Chicago Alliance of African-American Photographers (CAAAP).
The idea behind CAAAP was to do something that had never been done in the African-American community and with that, the Director, Milbert O. Brown, Jr., set out to assemble some of the nation's best photographers for a photographic project that was to become known as, "The Journey".
