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…
Ingrid Baars | The Poetic Psyche of Female Iconography
The life of an artist is that of an impetus to humanity’s search for beauty, truth and understanding. A breed entirely apart, struggling to bring forth onto the canvas of a chosen media, feelings…
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…
True As(s) Confessions | Chatting with Cameron Platter
Interplanetary zebras and high octane love affairs between crocodiles and go-go dancers become documents of reality and morality in an intense South African narrative. The message conveyed without actually being portrayed. Cameron Platter,…
Thought Structures, Deconstructing a Ugandan State of Mind
How one Ugandan poet, Peter Kagayi, is surviving the literary desert one step at a time. It is a thwarting affair to talk about ‘Ugandan writing’, a domain infamously described by Ugandan-Sudanese poet…
