Image courtesy of The Matson ( G. Eric and Edith) Photography Collection taken in 1936, Uganda from Hoima to Fort Portal.

AMSTERDAM

Galerie Gabriel Rolt | Adam Broomberg & Oliver Chanarin
~ Feb.18

Adam Broomberg & Oliver Chanrin. Portable Monuments. Courtesy of Galerie Gabriel Rolt.

Portable Monuments, the first solo exhibition at Galerie Gabriel Rolt for Adam Broomberg and Oliver Chanarin. The duo’s work interrogates the documentary and ethnographic traditions of photography.

Galerie Gabriel Rolt | Elandsgracht 34, 1016 TW Amsterdam, The Netherlands | More info

ARNHEM

Museum Voor Moderne Kunst Arnhem | Six Yards Guaranteed Dutch Design
~ May.07

Six Yards Guaranteed Dutch Design. Photo | Marc Pluim. Courtesy of Museum Voor Moderne Kunst Arnhem.

In Six Yards Guaranteed Dutch Design, Dutch textile brand Vlisco portrays how they became a part of various West African cultures and entered the worlds of fashion, visual arts and photography.

The exhibition explores the history of the textiles and their stories, touching on Dutch post-colonial history, taking a look at the differences and similarities between Western and non-Western cultures, and shedding light on how visual artists and top designers  have been inspired by Vlisco’s textiles.

Artists & Designers | Yinka Shonibare, Kara Walker, Ellen Gallagher, Wangechi Mutu, Fathima Tuggar, Viviane Sassen, Lucy Orta, Hans Eijkelboom, Seydou Keïta, Andrea Spotorno, Meschac Gaba, Bodys Isek Kingelez, Collectie Arnhem, Harvey Bouterse, Acne

Museum Voor Moderne Kunst Arnhem | Utrechtseweg 87 6812 AA Arnhem, Netherlands| More info

BERGEN

Bergen Kunsthall | Santu Mofokeng
~ Feb. 26

Santu Mofokeng. Buddhist Retreat near Pietermaritzburg, Kwazulu Natal, 2003. Courtesy of Bergen Kunsthall.

Chasing Shadows, the first international retrospective of Santu Mofokeng, a photographer who consistently subverts the alleged certainties of cultural and racial histories, questioning photography’s politics of representation and its objectivity, in works dealing with a variety of issues; photographs of religious rituals, memorials or desolate landscapes. Mofokeng’s black-and-white photographs are lasting images of humanity, recording not just adversity and oppression, but also happy moments and the indomitable human spirit.

Bergen Kunsthall | Rasmus Meyers allé 5, 5015 Bergen, Norway | More info

CAIRO

Tache Art Gallery | Hany Rashed
~ Feb.25

Hany Rashed. Salata. Courtesy of Tache Art Gallery

Salata, a retrospective exhibition by Hany Rashed whose work focuses on social interaction in different settings -  work, on the street, travel, and ultimately Egypt’s ongoing revolution. Rashed explores artful possibilities, treating his artworks as neither perfected nor static projects but rather building on old works incorporating new directions.

Tache Art Gallery | S-139, Designopolis, Km 38 Cairo-Alexandria Desert Road, Sheikh Zayed City, Egypt | More info

CAPE TOWN

STEVENSON Gallery | Viviane Sassen
~ Feb.25

Viviane Sassen. Codex, 2010. Courtesy of Stevenson Gallery.

Parasomnia, Viviane Sassen’s photos express feelings of dislocation between home and away, night and day, life and dreams. The series comprises photographs taken in West and East Africa as well as a few taken in Europe, which frame her enigmatic and often haunting narratives.

Stevenson Gallery, Cape Town | Buchanan Building, 160 Sir Lowry Road, Woodstock, Cape Town | More info

Whatiftheworld Gallery | Group Exhibition
Feb.4 – Mar. 3

Michele Mathison. ‘Smash n’ Grab, 2011. Courtesy of Whatiftheworld Gallery.

Outside The Lines , a group exhibition that engages with the material elements and physicality of abstraction. Formally the works selected emphasize composition, colour, line, shape and texture. A critical point of entry is the potential for ambiguity often associated with abstraction.

Artists | Morné Visagie, Mbongeni Dlamini, Nabeeha Mohamed, Daniella Mooney, Alexandra Karakashian, Rodan Kane Hart, Lyndi Sales, Michele Mathison, Chloe Rëid, and Anna Stielau.

Whatiftheworld Gallery | 1 Argyle Street, Woodstock, Cape Town | More info

JOHANNESBURG

Gallery MOMO | Group Show
Feb. 9 – Mar. 12, 2012

Mary Sibande. Everything Is Not Lost, 2011. Courtesy of Gallery MOMO.

Artists | Gary Stephens, Mary Sibande, Ransome Stanley, Lyndi Sales, Vitshois Bondo, Rodney Place

Gallery Momo | 52 7th Avenue, Randburg 2193, Johannesburg |  More info

Goodman Gallery | Advance/…Notice
~ Feb.25

Hank Willis Thomas. Apathy, 2011. Courtesy of Goodman Gallery.

Advance/ …Notice, a group show that gives notice to  innovations from their renown artists the likes of David Goldbatt, and to their newest ventures into intellectual exchange with artists whose work they are exhibited for the first time.

Artists | Reza Aramesh, Amer & Reza Farkhondeh, Jodi Bieber, Willem Boshoff, Candice Breitz , Adam Broomberg & Oliver Chanarin , Carla Busuttil, Kudzanai Chiurai, Hasan & Husain Essop , Mounir Fatmi , Kendell Geers, David Goldblatt , Frances Goodman, Robert Hodgins, Alfredo Jaar, William Kentridge , William Kentridge & Gerhard Marx, Sigalit Landau, Moshekwa Langa, Liza Lou, Gerhard Marx, Kagiso Pat Mautloa, Sam Nhlengethwa, Walter Oltmann, Rosenclaire, Mikhael Subotzky, Claire Van Blerck & Kyle Morland, Sue Williamson, Hank Willis Thomas,Nelisiwe Xaba & Mocke J Van Veuren.

Goodman Gallery | 163 Jan Smuts Avenue, Parkwood, Johannesburg, 2193 | More info

STEVENSON Gallery | Sabelo Mlangeni
~ 24 February 2012 

Sabelo Mlangeni. Twins, 2011. Courtesy of Stevenson Gallery.

Black Men in Dress & Iimbali brings together two bodies of work. The first, Black Men in Dress comprises a series of portraits photographed at the Johannesburg and Soweto Pride and the later, Imbali photographed at reed dances in KwaZulu-Natal and Swaziland. The works contemplate themes of identity, ritual and belonging.

Stevenson Gallery, Johanesburg | 62 Juta Street, Braamfontein 2001, Johannesburg | More info

LONDON

TIWANI CONTEMPORARY | Synchronicity II
Feb.3 – Mar.17

Steeve Bauras. Chili, 2007. Courtesy of Tiwani Contemporary Gallery.

Synchronicity II, a show rooted in contemporary creativity within a global context presents work by nine artists from Africa and its diaspora – most of whom are showing in London for the first time . Like the
experience of synchronicity in psychoanalysis, their artistic practices capture the spirit of the moment, connected on one hand yet individual on the other. Presented by Tiwani Contemporary and curated by the collective On The Roof  in partnership with baudoin lebon, Paris.

Artists | Malala Andrialavidrazana, Steeve Bauras, James Barnor, François-Xavier Gbré, Em’Kal, Kapwani Kiwanga, Amina Menia, Grace Ndiritu, Abraham O. Oghobase

16 Little Portland Street, London, W1W 8BP | More info

JACK BELL GALLERY | Gonçalo Mabunda
Feb.16 – Mar.17

Gonçalo Mabunda.Courtesy of Jack Bell Gallery.

New work by Gonçalo Mabunda whose sculptures are fashioned out of deactivated weapons from the 1977-1992 Mozambican civil war.

13 Mason’s Yard, St. James’s, London, SW1Y 6BU | More info

MARRAKECH

Arts In Marrakech Biennale | Surrender & Higher Atlas
Feb.29 – Jun.3

Arts in Marrakech works to form cultural bridges and dialogues creating a forum for debate, free thinking and the exchange of ideas through contemporary Visual Art, Literature and Film. The opening 5 days titled Surrender will consist of Performances, Debates, Talks and Screenings as well as the opening of the Main Visual Arts Exhibition, Higher Atlas curated by Carson Chan and Nadim Samman. High connotes reverie and transcendence. Higher Atlas suggests a cartography of the beyond. All works will be new site-specific commissions, conceived and created on location with local craftspeople and manufacturers. Over thirty international artists, architects, writers, musicians and composers will be showing their work. The exhibition seeks to engage in an expansive dialogue with the city.

Higher Atlas Artists| جماعة, Younes Baba-Ali, Barkow Liebinger (Frank Barkow, Regine Leibinger), Joe Clark, CocoRosie (Bianca Cassidy, Sierra Cassidy), Matthew Stone & Phoebe Collings-James, Hassan Darsi, Alexandra Domanovic, Sophie Erlund, Tue Greenfort, Eva Grubinger, Jürgen Mayer H., Hadley & Maxwell, Elín Hansdóttir, Ethan Hayes-Chute, Roger Hiorns, Katia Kameli, Felix Kiessling, Faouzi Laatiris, Juliana Leite, Chi Wo Leung, Gideon Lewis-Kraus, Megumi Matsubara, Christopher Mayo, John Nash, Karthik Pandian, Finnbogi Pétursson, Alexander Ponomarev, Luca Pozzi, Katarzyna Pszewańska, Florian & Michael Quistrebert, Andrew Ranville, Anri Sala, Alex Schweder La & Khadija Carroll La, Pascal Martine Tayou, Sinta Werner

Surrender | Feb.29 – Mar.4  |More info

Higher Atlas | 
Feb.29 – Jun.3 | More info

PARIS

Maison Revue Noire | Jean Depara
~ Feb.18

Jean Depara. Depara, Night & Day in Kinshasa, 1955-1965. Courtesy of Maison Revue Noire.

Depara, Night & Day in Kinshasa, 1955-1965 is the first retrospective exhibition of Jean Depara depicting Leopoldville (renamed Kinshasa). On view scenes from those heady days and nights as the nation neared and claimed its independence. From it’s youth frolicking at bars, their crazy nights to images of Franco, a leading musician in his day and more.

Maison Revue Noire | 8 rue Cels, 75014 Paris | More info

NEW YORK

James Cohan Gallery | Yinka Shonibare MBE
Feb.16 – Mar.24

Yinka Shonibare MBE. Fake Death Picture (The Death of Chatterton – Henry Wallis). Courtesy of  James Cohan Gallery.

Addio del Passato is a multi-part exhibition of new sculptures, photoworks and the premiere of a new film, Shonibare explores the concept of destiny as it relates to themes of desire, yearning, love, power and sexual repression.

James Cohan Gallery | 533 West 26th Street, New York | More info

The Walther Collection Project Space | August Sander and Seydou Seydou Keïta: Portraiture and Social Identity
~ Mar. 10

August Sander, High School Student, 1926 and  Seydou Keïta, Untitled, 1952-1955. Courtesy of The Walther Collection

August Sander and Seydou Seydou Keïta: Portraiture and Social Identity unites the portraiture of two modern photography masters, Sander and Keïta. Their images vividly capture the rapid social transformations of the twentieth century through the faces of everyday people. Encapsulating two distinct cultures in pivotal moments of societal transition, Sander and Keïta’s portraits reflect on the experience and role of the individual in Germany and Mali.

The Walther Collection Project Space | 526 West 26th Street, Suite 718, New York | More info

It conjured up so many references some originating from Africa the others gleaned from some our favourite artists from around the globe. From the heavy brush stroked paintings of famed American painter, Richard Serra, to the stark and daring hand painted costumes made by Keith Haring. His custom made body paintings, headdress and costumes for Grace Jones in the 80′s seem so reminiscent of the body paintings done by the Surma people of Southern Ethiopia.

We weave from one image to the next on a mostly black and white journey, some made by contemporary artist the likes of Japanese artist Yayoi Kusama and her obsession with dots that began way back in the 60′s to more…

Credits in order of appearance

Jean-Michel Basquiat (USA). Self Portrait (Plaid), 1983, Sammlung Thaddaeus Ropac, Salzburg © The Estate of Jean-Michel Basquiat / VBK, Wien, 2010

Fatouma Diabaté (Mali). L’Homme en animal, 2011

Robert Mappelthorpe (USA). Grace Jones, 1984,  © Robert Mapplethorpe Foundation

Boaz Rottem (USA). Surma Boy.

Victor Ekpuk (Nigeria). “You Be Me, I Be You.”

Surma Girl, Photo Morgana.

Richard Serra (USA), Painting title unknown, 1973

Grace Jones 1987, Dress by Keith Haring (USA).  Photo by Ron Galella/Wire Image

Herieth Paul (Tanzania) featured in fashion editorial, Lower East Side by photographer Max Abadian for magazine, Dress To Kill.

Yayoi Kusama (Japan). Self-Obliteration by Dots (detail), 1968, performance, documented with black-and-white photographs by Hal Reif.

Abdoulaye Konaté (Mali). Le Temps de Danse, 2008. Courtesy of the artist, Abdoulaye Konaté and Maison Revue Noire.

Yayoi Kusama (Japan). ”Accumulation No. 2,” 1968. Courtesy of the artist.

Jean-Baptiste Huyhn (France). Portrait I, Ethiopia.

All images courtesy of the respective artists as listed above. All rights reserved.

Last November when visiting Paris we had the chance to sit down with Medhi Slimani, one of the founders of sneaker brand SAWA. Over lunch we caught up on their latest news and even got a sneak peak of their newest model, the Tsagué. We have to admit, we instantly wanted to add it to our wish list!

Launched in 2009, SAWA has steadily been making tracks to offer a solid ‘vintage’ inspired sneaker line-up 100% made in Africa. Like every fledgling business, they have had to make some adjustments along the way, like moving production to Ethiopia since we last interviewed them. Medhi told us that the move just made sense in terms of streamlining production and ensuring quality control. That decision is paying off given the calibre of their retailers, the likes of London-based Dover Street Market and latest addition, J. Crew for the North American market and Tomorrowland in Japan.

So here we feature their newest model which just launched and pays homage to Ethiopia, naming it Tsagué. Topping it off, their latest creative including website re-design was all done in Addis Ababa, using a locally-based creative studio, 360 Ground. Without a doubt, SAWA is evidence that a street savvy brand can be produced on the continent. Now it’s just up to you to vote with your feet!

To find out more about SAWA check out their website.

All images courtesy of SAWA | Made in Africa. All rights reserved.

If you happen to be in Cape Town these coming weeks, we definitely recommend visiting Stevenson Gallery which is currently exhibiting the work of Dutch photographer, Viviane Sassen. Her work has been aptly described as “constantly disrupting our usual perceptions because some are carefully constructed while others are incidental scenes she encounters on her travels, leaving us unsure which are her imaginary fictions and which scenes from life.”

Lilac, 2006. Archival ink on cotton rag paper

Nairobi #2, 2010. C-Print

Mauritanie, 2011. Archival ink on cotton rag paper

Laundy, 2007. C- Print

Viviane Sassen | Parasomnia

On Show 19 January – 25 February 2012

STEVENSON | Cape Town
Buchanan Building
160 Sir Lowry Road
Woodstock 7925

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About

Viviane Sassen was born in 1972 in Amsterdam, where she now lives. She first studied fashion design, followed by photography at the Utrecht School of the Arts (HKU) and Ateliers Arnhem. Her work was first published in avant-garde fashion magazines and is regularly commissioned by prominent designers. She was awarded the Dutch art prize, the Prix de Rome, in 2007, and in 2011 won the International Center of Photography in New York’s Infinity Award for Applied/Fashion/Advertising Photography.

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Viviane Sassen is represented by STEVENSON Gallery and Motive Gallery.

All images courtesy of the artist, Viviane Sassen and STEVENSON Gallery, Cape Town.

The Frown is represented by Howl Records.

Lead vocals | Eve Rakow
Beats, synths & orchestration | Time apter
Cello | Caroline Leisegang
Drums | Max Lehr
Trumpet | Twyla Spiller

Find them on Facebook and Twitter.

The Frown's vocalist, Eve Rakow

“Everyday we ride… From the dirtiest roads to the grand avenues. A cruise thru the kinkiest paths and the brightest minds. Meeting the greats and the beasts. To end up in our paradise. Just by our creative daemons.”

Nombolo One is part of a bigger engagement,  the Motel11 Roadtrip Tapes, music and art collaborations inspired by the  figurative road trips throughout ones life. Launching the project, the roadtrip tape features all legendary covers with zero samples. The releases are set to be available for free online  in combination with limited edition items & special goods on order.

The first of this 12 track release, Melodi Ft. The Frown, a nod to a classic by Mahlathini & the Mahotella Queens and their original track, Melodi Yalla. Along with The Frown, Mathambo collaborates with Cape Town based art collective Love&Hate Studio, to create the artwork for the limited CD wood boxes and denim jackets, curated by one louder.agency.
 

 

Stay tuned on Dec 20, 2011 when the full album is drops on MOTEL11.TV

SPOEK MATHAMBO | NOMBOLO ONE

01| Melodi Ft The Frown
02| Weekend Special Ft Okmalumkoolkat, Bra Solomon & Ayobah
03| Sfunabantwana Ft Okmalumkoolkat & Bra Solomon
04| Jacknife Ft The Brother Moves On
05| Burnout
06| Matswale Ft Syntax
07| Chapita Ft The Brother Moves On
08| Ibizemoyeni Ft Ayobah & Mthezo
09| Kazette Ft Syntax
10| Not Yet Uhuru
11| Waiting For Your Name To Be Ft The Brother Moves On
12| Follow My Teeth Ft The Frown

Produced by Nombolo One
Curated by one louder.agency
Illustrated by love & hate studio

Natural Fashion | Hans Silvester

A Diamond in The Roughage | T Magazine

Invenzioni e Capricci | Guiseppe Arcimboldo

Credits

Editorial | A Diamond in The Roughage | NY Times T Magazine | April 15, 2011

Photography|  Richard Burbridge |  art + commerce
Styling | Robbie Spencer
Model | Tatiana Cotliar | Next Models London
Hair | Martin Cullen | Streeters London
Makeup | Peter Philips for Chanel
Manicure | Michina Koide | Art Department
Set | Gary Card | clm.
Fashion Assistants:  Elizabeth Fraser-Bell and Jonathan Paul Hamilt

Natural Fashion Series| Hans Silvester (b. Lorrach, Germany 1938) is a photographer dedicated to investigating the world, capturing and promoting the most intimate, and perhaps enigmatic, of organic phenomena. He is represented by theMarlborough Gallery.

Images © Hans Silvester. Courtesy of the Marlborough Gallery.

Renaissance Paintings | Guiseppe Arcimboldo (b. 1526, Milan) was an Italian Renaissance painter known for his intricate paintings, which combined inanimate or found objects into a portrait that would resemble the portrait subject.

Vertumnus (Emperor Rudolph II), 1590. © Skoklosters Castle, Sweden. Photo Samuel Uhrdin.
Flora, 1589. Private Collection.
Summer, 1563. © Kunsthistorisches Museum Vienna,
Spring, 1573. © Musée du Louvre, Paris, Département des Peintures

All images courtesy of the respective artists. All rights reserved.

In this moment of need, social innovators Good for Nothing and digital creatives Many by Many have banded together to use creativity to launch the project 50/50. Fifty projects in fifty days to raise the ambitious goal of one million pounds for aid relief on behalf of UNICEF. With more than two hundred and forty thousand pounds raised, though just shy of a quarter of the target, one can hardly shrug off the power of creativity to command attention and funds from a concerned global community.

We feature work from one of these projects, Posterity a limited edition typographical project initiated by creative agency, The Mill. Of the thirty-three poster designs, “What The People Say” by New York-based designer Colin Hess caught our eye; an intriguing limn and thinking piece. We had a chance to talk with him about the project, the possible efficacy of such a project and what if anything can visual communication and design do in such an instance.

Can you share with us , what was the brief for the Posterity poster series project?

Colin Hess | The brief was to come up with a design that would bring awareness to the famine and drought going on in parts of East Africa.  The bigger idea being, generate as much money as possible for aid through the practices that you know.  For the Mill’s design department this meant design.  The poster series was the Mills creation as a collaborator with the 50/50 project.

What encouraged you to be involved?

CH | I got involved for a number of reasons but primarily because the canvas was so wide open and I could create something that was not constrained by client needs and wishes.  The objectives obviously are of great intention and I felt that if I could help generate some money for people who are starving by using the skills that I use on a daily basis then well, that’s a no brainer. The challenge of coming up with something that people would actually buy was something I found interesting as well.  In the context of the “Western World” we are exposed to so many things – so much so we don’t really internalize all of them and starvation is a big deal, but for people say with computers, it’s one of these issues that is so far removed from what they actually  experience and I thought to confront people on this and say something that would grab their attention.  I wanted to come up with something that would make people in the craze of their information syphoning, stop for a minute, think about these things, maybe chuckle, maybe smirk maybe roll their eyes — but ultimately confront them enough to do something to help fight against this very real problem.

Graphic design ultimately is about visually communicating a given message, what message did you hope to convey with your design?

CH | The message is: look how absurd all this is.  Starvation in 2011 is absurd. It shouldn’t exist, especially when you have individuals with more wealth than entire countries complaining about how much gluten they have in their diet. I wanted to re-contextualize these issues. Americans have way too much of virtually everything. Just the other day I was over at someone’s apartment and they were sifting through the cupboards through the bags of chips, pretzels, soup, etc…and they say “Let’s go out, we have nothing to eat.”  To someone who walks miles for water and stretches nuts and berries for weeks that line is like a huge “Fuck you“.  I wanted people to see this. Maybe do something about it.

The project is conceived to bring awareness and raise funds to the current famine in the region of East Africa,  as The Economist states, centered in Somalia & Ethiopia though also affecting neighbouring states, to what degree unverified but Eritrea and Djibouti. How effectively do you believe the selected posters achieve this?

CH | Well that is a loaded question.  I mean I share a fairly jaded view of how relief efforts of this kind actualize themselves.  Countries within Africa, in particular, are incredibly volatile and I don’t think UNICEF watching a check clear to Sharif Sheikh Ahmed really does much in the way of helping the starving people there.  If I really wanted to help these people I’d get on a plane, get on the ground and put food in the mouths of the people that  actually need it. It’s very saddening and I don’t mean to belittle efforts trying to help but how much does a poster help a starving person — not as much as food does I would say.  As far as generating awareness and prompting people to help by giving money I can only hope it gets out there in-front of people and they buy one.  Propaganda can be incredibly powerful and a resonating message can promote a great change.  Finding out what that message is is the tricky part…I guess we will just have to see how it goes.

Your design is definitely a good thinking piece, the only caveat being that the design paints the whole continent?

CH | Right – probably could have been more specific here to the point that “Africa is not a country”. I guess I felt like the shape of the continent was a stronger icon and had a better read than a country within Africa.  So when you look at it from afar you see Africa and that is the only shape you recognize at first, as you get closer you see the talk bubbles and then the messaging and then hopefully the irony.

To view some of the captions and the darnedest things that people say when they are not starving, click on the images below.

The full poster series can be viewed on posterity.themill.com where prints are available for purchase at $50 a piece.

About

Colin Hess currently lives and works in NY where he has been based for the past 6 years. With a little tongue-and-cheek he introduces himself:

I have made a living as a Digital Artist working in the Motion Design, Feature Film, and Advertising industries primarily. I am an experienced Designer, Art Director, Compositor, CG Maya Artist, and Typographer but my knowledge of how to use a fax machine is limited at best to a beginner / novice level. A random fact about me: I scribble a lot. Visually I enjoy swarms, data sets and systems, collages, the 1960’s, science, sound, and digital distortion – amongst other things.

Intellectually I enjoy journeys into new realms of consciousness. Socially I try to maintain a chivalrous code of gentlemanly conduct when out in the public sphere and freakishly I am continually seeking to free my mind in hopes that my ass will follow.

My autobiographical information could be A) Completely false, B) Impractical & diversionary, or C) Slightly humorous while drinking your coffee.

I very much like spicy mustard. I am musically inclined and can play the trumpet, piano, bass and drums. I hope to eventually open a cafe/studio/gallery/performance space that I can live and work from making fantastical things and super strong espressos.

I am currently accepting investment opportunities.

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Image courtesy of Colin Mill and the Posterity project. All rights reserved.

A climate for changing perceptions, that is what Philippe Sibelly hopes to encourage through his project ‘The Other Africa.’ Sibelly is part of a rising group, both on and off the continent who wish to expand the dialogue within the domain of what constitutes modern Africa.

He has chosen to do this through photography under three thematic umbrellas. Firstly, portraits of gainfully employed Africans on the continent, members of an emerging middle class as he calls it, to night cityscapes as featured here and lastly portraits of radio DJ’s.

Sibelly’s goal is to visit all fifty five African nations. So far his travels have taken him through north west Africa to Algeria, Mauritania, Senegal, and Cape Verde an island in the Atlantic off the west coast,  and in west Africa to the nations of Ghana & Togo and down to the central region of the continent to Cameroon, Equatorial Guinea and Gabon and the island nation of São Tomé & Príncipe.

His ambitions exceed showcasing these images on the Internet and his base country of the UK. Whilst he has made exhibitions in Great Britain, two to date in 2009, in 2011 he also presented his photos in Kumasi, Ghana and Equatorial Guinea.

Très sympa! Encore merci pour cette belle expo à Kumasi!

– Julien Dal Bosco |  Alliance Française of Kumasi, Director

With ten nations visited and forty five left to go, for the next phase of the project Sibelly is planning to visit and exhibit in Somaliland and Kenya.

* Translation | “Great! Thank you again for this very nice exhibition in Kumasi!”

About

Philippe Sibelly (b. Marseille, France 1971) is a London-based educator and photographer. Over the past fifteen years, he has travelled and photographed in more than sixty countries around the globe. When he is not teaching art to secondary school students, he is working on his photographic project, The Other Africa.

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All images courtesy of The Other Africa & Phillipe Sibelly. All rights reserved, 2011.