Together in the Picture
John Peffer scans the photographic styles that image a black South African self outside the Apartheid frames of negation, negativity and separation. Senyane Boshielo holding her wedding portrait, produced by Alpheus Gwangwa…
Creating Your Own Image of Makoko
Guest Contribution by Andrea Stultiens Observations and thoughts on The Silent Majority Project, a photography and public art project in urban slum, Makoko. In an exhibition on American photography in 1978, MoMA curator…
The Walther Collection
On November 10, 2012, The Walther Collection collaborated with NYU’s Department of Photography and Imaging and the University College London, for a symposium on ‘Alternative Ways to Describe Historic and Contemporary African Photography.’…
A Mobile Message | Kibera’s Youth Spray For Peace
Guest contribution from Nairobi, Kenya by Joel Lukhovi Kibera, one of Nairobi’s largest slums, and the second largest urban slum continentally, experienced some of the worst violence during Kenya’s post election crisis of…
What Can These Photographs Tell Us?
Photography from and about Africa is gaining interest and scholarship judging from the turn out at the one day symposium Distance and Desire: Encounters with the African Archive, held this past November, 2012…
Fashion On The Street
At the mention of street style and photography the names that may first come to mind, particularly within the global realm of fashion are likely to be the Tommy Ton’s, Scott Schuman’s (The…
