The life changing experience I had in India while working on a film and a kids’ book about the fighting kite culture. I visited many cities in India, but it was in Gujarat, Ahmedabad, where I spent the most time and connected more deeply with the culture and the people. I’ve been to so many countries I’ve lost count, and thought no culture could be more welcoming and warm than the Brazilians, until I went to India.
Out of the many magical experiences I had on this trip, the most special was spending time with families and learning about their fighter kite traditions and culture. Thank you @vishu_8802__@maximus_the_us and @its.your_aryann for helping with everything, especially the production. I will definitely be back. Thank you and the families for all the incredible energy you brought into my life and this project. ❤️🇮🇳.
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Meu Deus, quanto mais eu peço e sonho, mais o Senhor me dá a honra de concretizar tudo aquilo que eu posso imaginar.
Nesse vídeo, eu conto um pouco do que fizemos e até onde chegamos. E só de estarmos aqui já é uma grande vitória: de 13 mil filmes, apenas 5 foram selecionados e o nosso está aí entre os 5 iiiiiiiiiiira! E o nosso projeto ainda conta uma história real é de arrepiar e até de chorar seus bichões ❤️🔥
Não tenho palavras para agradecer @rfrederickphoto , @zacalaca e @allartstv pela oportunidade de participar desse projeto. Para mim, foi um dos mais especiais, onde consegui respirar toda a energia e o conceito que vocês passaram para cada participante do @thedarkroommcs
Ver tudo isso sendo realizado e projetado diante dos nossos olhos é surreal. Isso mostra que podemos fazer tudo e muito mais ❤️🔥
Agora é contar com todos para que, juntos, possamos conquistar ainda mais. E mesmo que não venha dessa vez, seguimos com os pés no chão, indo para as próximas, tentando até o troféu subir lá no alto.
Porque, como minha mãe sempre diz: sem luta, não há conquis
Peace Good people!! I have some super exciting news to share with you all. The Darkroom MCs documentary series that my bro/business partner @zacalaca and I created, directed, produced and cohosted has been nominated for a Webby Award!! 😁😁 This is an incredible accomplishment for us. We are nominated for ‘Best Video & Film-Interview, Talk & After Show.’ We are sharing this nomination category with some heavy hitters like Spike Lee, Jimmy Kimmel & chef Gordon Ramsay!! The Webbys are thirty years old, take place at Ciprianis NY & are the Oscar Awards of web based shows. We want to win this award for our mentor & ancestor Beuford Smith, all the underrepresented Black & Brown photographers and Brooklyn!! Please vote for us! It’s free, quick & easy. Click the link in my bio to cast your vote. 🙏🏾 Special thanks to our super dope cinematographer @crekeaires for doing his thing and @allartstv & WNET Group for submitting our series for this. 🙌🏾🙌🏾 Let’s get it!! 👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾 #vote #support
📢 Big News: “The Darkroom MCs” is nominated for a Webby Award!
Created and hosted by @rfrederickphoto and @zacalaca , the interview series journeys into the darkroom to showcase some of the most important but often under-recognized photographers of our time.
The show’s first episode featured the iconic photographer Beuford Smith. In this clip, the late artist talks shop with Frederick and Zaca as they flip through images taken throughout Smith’s career.
Tap the link in the bio to vote for “The Darkroom MCs” to win a Webby People’s Choice Award. Stream the series any time on the ALL ARTS Youtube and site
Y’all!! 💛
My friends' incredible TV series - The Darkroom MCs - just got nominated for a Webby (!!) Congratulations to Anderson Zaca and Russell Frederick, who created the series with Creke Aires!
Please go vote for The Darkroom MCs - it's in a category of only 5 other series...including those of Spike Lee, Jimmy Kimmel, and Gordon Ramsay!!
The Darkroom MCs highlights Black and Brown photographers working in the darkroom, and the inaugural episode features the legendary Brooklyn-based photographer, Beuford Smith.
If you can, vote many times + share 🙏
(link in bio and also here: https://wbby.co/57601N)
Voting closes April 16.
One brief pause — and a photograph that continues to speak decades later.
From front-page features to the quieter details that defined an era, @oziermuhammad has captured it all. In this throwback from “The Darkroom MCs,” the Pulitzer Prize-winning photojournalist reflects on some of his most powerful photographs, including this poignant moment when two men at an Atlanta barbershop paused to watch a march honoring Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. make its way to the Eternal Flame at The King Center.
“I wanted to photograph my people,” Muhammad tells @zacalaca and @rfrederickphoto . “That’s the only thing I really wanted to do, and that’s the only thing I really want to do today.”
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“The Darkroom MCs” YouTube.com/AllArtsTV
✨ **Friday, December 12 · 6:30 PM** ✨
@bplpresents BPL, 10 Lafayette Ave, 2nd Floor, Brooklyn, NY
Join Anderson Zaca and @theparkersargent for an immersive, interactive experience:
📸 “The Art of Drag Meets The Art of Photography” 🎭
An evening of photography, film, drinks, conversation, and more celebrating creativity, identity, and expression.
Plus: Book signing by @thom.hansen.758 and @zacalaca 📚✨
Don’t miss it!
#BPLPresents #BrooklynPublicLibrary #DragArt #PhotographyArt #NYCEvents #BrooklynEvents #ArtCommunity #AndersonZaca #ParkerSargent #fineartphotograghy #artofdrag
YOU ARE INVITED Saturday November,01 at 3 PM at @bgsqd for a afternoon with ANDERSON ZACA and BOOK COVER STAR @fifiduboisdq BOOK READING - PHOTO PRESENTATION - LIVE CONVERSATION and more. 208 West 13Street Room 210 NYC
JOIN US TODAY, Friday, October 3, at 4PM at the @icp Photobook Fest for a signing with @zacalaca
Zaca will sign ‘Fire Island Invasion: Day of Independence,’ published by @damiani_books
The Fire Island Invasion of the Pines is an annual event that takes place on July 4 on Fire Island, New York. The inaugural invasion took place in 1976 when a drag queen was denied entry into a restaurant in the Pines and a group of her friends, also dressed in drag, stormed the island in protest. Since then, the invasion has been repeated every year, with hundreds of drag queens descending on the Pines to commemorate and celebrate this original act of protest. This book marks the 50th anniversary of this historic cultural phenomenon.
New York–based photographer Anderson Zaca (born 1976) began documenting the Invasion in 2007. Shot using black-and-white film and a medium format camera, Zaca’s work combines traditional and contemporary elements, showcasing the intricate details of each scene and capturing the beautifully contradictory nature of the individuals involved.
With over 3,000 images spanning almost two decades, Zaca’s photographs serve as both an archive and a tribute to the transformative power of the art of drag during this iconic annual celebration.
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#andersonzaca #fireislandinvasion @invasionfireisland #icp #icpphotobookfest #icpbooksigning
Happy birthday bro! I know you went surfing today. Lol. I also know you are celebrating this day with your son Ocean. We will link up soon to celebrate life, brotherhood, the success of the series, our resilience and our future plans. In 2009 when we met at the Bklyn Photo Salon I knew you was real one. We were both trying to figure out this maze of the photography industry. To this day you are still the same joyful brotha I met back then. Life has challenged you multiple times and you stepped up to the plate each time and won! Two published books, a son and now a documentary series on PBS! Amazing bro!! 👏🏾👏🏾 Four years ago when we came up with this brilliant concept to cohost, direct and produce the Darkroom MCs we knew it was going to be an uphill climb but we strategized, pushed through and achieved something the nonbelievers didn’t think we could do. When I was at my worst you was right there when I needed a friend. You came true & through to lift up my spirits and push me forward when I really needed some support. I salute you bro 🙌🏾🙌🏾 We made history together with our first collaboration and we’re just getting started. Looking forward to making more dope sh*t with you bro. Everyone.. please wish my bro and business partner @zacalaca a Happy Birthday today! He deserves it! Lastly, I know he would appreciate it if any of you purchased his latest book ‘Invasion or his first book ‘Block Party.’ Thank you! 🙏🏾🙏🏾 #love #brotherhood #team #family #support #history
This book marks 5 decades of tradition, protest, resilience, celebration, and everything in between.
Shot in black and white film and printed in duotone by @damiani_books , this book stands out as a masterpiece.
Get your copy — link in bio.
Thank you for the support ❤️
