Black Girls Shoot Too

Visual HerStory: A Celebration of Women of Color Photographers

December 6-13, 2025

Reception: December 6, 2025 | 5-8pm

LA Artcore | 120 Judge John Aiso St., Los Angeles, CA 90012

Black Girls Shoot Too is excited to debut the inaugural exhibition Visual HerStory: A Celebration of Women of Color Photographers on view from December 6 to December 13, 2025 at LA Artcore. The exhibition features artwork from 20 Los Angeles based women photographers who use photography as a tool for defining identity, memory, and representation by picturing people of color in their beauty. Historically, chronopolitics disorientated, discouraged, and prevented women from participating in the creative society by excluding them in exhibitions, institutions, and academia. Photographers in Visual HerStory take a pluriversal perspective on the many personas that coexist to identify people of color and womanhood, defying the commonly misunderstood or misrepresented. Photography becomes a tool that allows reinvention and liberation for women, through its digital accessibility. In the essay In Our Glory: Photography and Black Life, bell hooks reminds us, “Using images, we connect ourselves to a recuperative,redemptive memory that enables us to construct radical identities, images of ourselves that transcend the limits of the colonizing eye.

” Participating in the passage of liberation, women photographers in this exhibition oppose a narrative of misrepresentation of people of color, while developing their own depictions of self and the worlds surrounding their lives. This participation in reimagining people of color through the medium of photography brings about an evolved representation of diverse peoples across the diaspora.

Our ways of seeing ourselves are evolved when they are represented front and center. An emergence of freedom overwhelms a culture of creatives and the lives around them.

Self-preservation is reached when women photographers have the freedom to express their identities and those around them through their own perceptions. By reconstructing their ways of seeing, this group of photographers pave a way for the next generation of creatives and shift the focus of how our communities view themselves.

Artists in this exhibition include Ayo Awoyemi, Beverly Barnett, Melody Benjamin, Kai Bouhmad, Zoë Cesar, Sheba Cheatham, tshiela, Indeya Eubank, Akeesa Gunn, Danielle Hamlett, Tatiana Jones, Congyu Liu, Kristi Lomax, Rochelle Miles, 7ven Monae, Renee Newman, Jordynn Salone, Harpereet Kaur Sandhu, Pia Williams, and Kalynn Youngblood.

About the Curators

Kai Bouhmad is a multifaceted professional and artist based in Pasadena, CA. Born in Long Branch, NJ, and raised in Columbus, OH, she is a classically trained pianist and vocalist, having trained at the Conservatory of Music at Capital University. She is also a world traveler, photographer, writer, and a dedicated humanitarian who loves to advocate for people. With a Bachelor of Arts in Sociology (Wright State University, 1996), Kai’s humanitarian work includes being awarded a grant (1992) from Amnesty International for human rights research and partnering with many other non-profits worldwide. She is currently employed with the County of Los Angeles Child Support Services Department in case management and financial analysis. In March of 2025, she launched Black Girls Shoot Too, a program empowering women of color photographers.

Danielle A. Hill is a Cleveland-born artist and curator based in Pasadena, CA. At the center of her work is interdependency, love, connection, and familial practices. She collaborates with collectives and organizations that prioritize and invest in the thriving of artists of color while abstaining from colonial practices. She received a Master of Arts in Arts Management degree from Sotheby’s Institute of Art at Claremont Graduate University (2020) and a Bachelor of Arts in Arts Management and Entrepreneurship from Baldwin Wallace University (2019). She is the recipient of the CREO Individual Artist Grant (2023) and Black Artist Foundry Grant (2022). She has curated and managed exhibitions with Black Girls Shoot Too (2025); Armory Center for the Arts (2023-current); ZEAL (2023); and SPACES (2017). She is currently the Exhibition Manager at Armory Center for the Arts and serves as the City of Pasadena District 3 Arts & Culture Commissioner in Pasadena, CA.