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Meadowlands--Soweto 1852

 

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KAMEELAH J. RASHEED is a conceptual artist, photographer, writer, and youth educator based in Brooklyn, New York. 

Kameelah was born in 1985 in East Palo Alto, CA (SF/Bay Area). She has lived in Cape Town, South Africa as an exchange student, Johannesburg, South Africa as an Amy Biehl U.S. Fulbright Scholar, and Washington, D.C. as a Harry S Truman Scholar. 

Her work has been exhibited in several group shows in New York, California, and Washington, D.C. Her photography has appeared in a number of print and online publications including ITCH Magazine, Transitions: An International Review, F-Stop Magazine, Make/Shift Magazine, Liberator Magazine blog, and Sokwenele. 

She is also the co-founder of Mambu Badu, a photography collective for emerging female photographers of African descent. She is also a visual arts intern for Liberator Magazine where she is working on a series of interviews on NY-based artists. 

A published writer, her essay "Lines of Bad Grammar" is featured in the book I Speak for Myself: American Women on Being Muslim. Her writing has also been published in The Nation (online), Make/Shift Magazine, Liberator Magazine (online), Pambazuka: Pan-African Voices for Freedom and Justice, and WireTap Magazine.

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