AIPAD The Photography Show 2024 | Arnika Dawkins Gallery

Tokie Rome Taylor

Tokie Rome-Taylor is a native and resident in the suburbs of Atlanta,GA. She received her BA in Arts Education with a focus on Photography and Drawing from Morris Brown College, In Atlanta and M.Ed, and Specialist from Lesley University. Taylor's work explores themes of time, spirituality, and identity. She often integrates found objects as artifacts and conduits of memory.
- Tokie Rome Taylor
  What is Precious is Protected, 2022
  archival pigment print on cotton rag
  36 x 24 inches
- Tokie Rome Taylor
  Before Yesterday We Could Fly, 2021
  archival pigment print on cotton rag
  36 x 24 inches
Oye Diran

Oye Diran is a Nigerian fashion and fine art photographer based in New York City. Born in Lagos, Nigeria, Diran moved to New York during his childhood. Using a bold eye to capture and evoke raw emotion through imagery and fusing pops of color with detailed motifs that convey the essence of his subjects, Diran’s style is unique and fresh. Diran's work primarily takes a view on the beauty of people of color. The beauty and regality thathave been misconstrued in society for a longtime. Through his photographs, he aims to convey this allure with the use of fine art and conceptual themes. Each of his projects share this similar message but with the use of different elements. Elements derived from different cultures around the world, royalty and the symbolical meaning of color. Secondarily, he aims toconvey life lessons and experiences that inspire the audience.
Builder Levy

Thinking of himself as an abstract expressionist, Builder Levy majored in art at Brooklyn College, where he studied painting with Ad Reinhardt, art history with Milton Brown, and photography with Walter Rosenblum, who became a mentor and friend. He earned a master’s degree in art education at NYU, where, he studied metal welding junk sculpture, and incorporated the study of the FSA photography program, the Photo League, and the Kamoinge Workshop, whose founding director was Roy DeCarava. Friendships with Paul Strand (with whom he lived for ten days in 1973) and Helen Levitt, added insights into his role as an artist. As a New York City teacher working with teens for 35 years, enriched his life and his vision.With an aesthetic grounded in realism infused with intense humanity, Levy’s hand-printed gold-toned gelatin silver print and platinum print photographs blend social documentary, fine art, and street photography “to produce works of power and beauty” (from the introductory essay Engaged with Life;Engaged with Art,Builder Levy Photographer, by *Naomi Rosenblum.
delphine fawundu

Adama Delphine Fawundu is a photographer and visual artist of Mende, Krim, Bamileke and Bubi descent, based in Brooklyn, New York. Her distinct visual language, centered around themes of indigenization and ancestral memory, enriches and expands the photographic canon. Fawundu co-published the critically acclaimed book “MFON: Women Photographers of the African Diaspora.” She holds a MFA in Visual Arts from Columbia University.
Regis and Kahran Bethencourt

World renowned child photographers, Regis and Kahran Bethencourt are a husband and wife duo and the imaginative forces behind Creative Soul Photography. The pair gained global recognition last year with their AfroArt series. The collection, which showcases the beauty and versatility of afro hair, was conceived as a way to empower kids of color around the world.Regis and Kahran Bethencourt aim to empower children of color to embrace their natural curls and the skin that they’re in.
- Regis and Kahran Bethencourt
  Crowned in Majesty, 2021
  archival pigmentprint
  36 x 24 inches
- Regis and Kahran Bethencourt
  Ice Queen, 2021
  archival pigment Print
  36 x 24 inches
ervin a johnson

Ervin A. Johnson was born and raised in Chicago, Illinois. After graduating from the University of Illinois- Urbana Champaign with a bachelor's in Rhetoric he began work on his second bachelor's at Columbia College Chicago in photography. Most recently he has completed his MFA in photography at Savannah College of Art and Design. Ervin utilizes photo-based mixed media to reimagine his cultural and racial identity via photography and video.
Barbara DuMetz

Barbara DuMetz launched her career as a commercial photographer in 1970s Los Angeles, branching out into portraiture and fine art photography. She earned acclaim for her depictions of everyday life in black communities, and for her work with African American actors, writers, artists, musicians and sports figures. Among her subjects: Maya Angelou, Quincy Jones, Bebe Moore Campbell, Thelonious Monk, Kareem Abdul Jabbar and Betye Saar.
Keris Salmon (b. 1959, New York, NY) is a New York-based multi-media artist and award winning broadcast journalist, whose work reckons with the legacies of both personal and collective histories. She earned a BS from Stanford University, CA in 1981 and completed her graduate studies in journalism at University of California, Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism in 1985. She has worked for major broadcasters such as ABC, NBC, MassMOCA trustee and PBS.

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