Chaos in the Landscape: Nico Krijno’s How to Leave Your Body Behind
“Krijno’s images are threaded through with references to South Africa’s colonial history and its fragile post-apartheid democracy.”
Category Archives: Africa
António Júlio Duarte: Against the Blackest of Days
“There is noise, distortion, grain and the magnetic tape in my mind completely fails in parts to distribute any information at all. The images are dark, stained by the passing of time and the incredulous weight of dry heat. Throughout the song “Blackened” by Metallica plays over and over…” When I look at […]
Lorenzo Vitturi: We Need More Markets
“It is an aesthetic examination of the material of everyday life that barely impinges on representational issues and I love that about it.”
Chloe Sells: The Morass of Sacred Geometry
“Trees, leaves, flowers are all given the Sells treatment and become abstracted metaphors of the sacred geometry still found between light and organic materials within the aforementioned natural world.”
I have Come to Disappoint You: Michele Sibiloni’s “Fuck It”
@ Michele Sibiloni Its tick-box approach to images, the title, the cover, the text within capitalize on the “rough” Ugandan nightlife and seems very much directed at a Deutsche Bourse Prize/ Magnum/ Western White latte audience. I usually start most of my reviews with a literary metaphor. I feel to do so is to […]
Alex Majoli and the Creators of “Another Congo” Bare All
“(Congo) is one of the very few places in the world that has not been extensively documented.”
The (Im)possibilities to Shoot as a White Photographer on the African Continent
Now, it’s hard to defend yourself if you are in possession of the ‘white privilege’, as I am…
Apartheid, White Society and Photography – David Goldblatt is Interviewed at Arles (2006)
Farmer’s Son with his Nursemaid. Marico Bushveld, December 1964, 1964 “During the years of apartheid, I was concerned with trying to…with exploring why people valued this peculiar and evil system and how they expressed those values in their homes, in themselves, in their bodies, in the things that they built.” Interview conducted by Laetitia Martinez, […]
An Interview with Malick Sidibé (2009)
“When I began to take photographs, I never imaged that my photos would travel around the world.” Interview in Madrid for the PHotoEspaña Baume & Mercier 2009 Award Since 1960, Malick Sidibé (Mali, 1936) has produced photographs in his studio, Studio Malick, located in Bamako. These images with their pure gaze document popular culture […]
Pierre Verger – “Black Gods in Exile”
The picture-taking nomad was so awed by the charm of Brazil’s former capital and its citizens that, over the next 50 years, he chose it as the center of his life and as his base and starting point for countless trips to Africa. Introduction to Pierre Verger – Black Gods in Exile By Manfred […]
Pieter Hugo in Conversation (2007)
Pieter Hugo in Conversation with Joanna Lehan (21 February 2007), Published in Messina/Musina, Punctum Editions, 2007 JL: Musina is the northernmost town in South Africa. Its name has been changed, and this fact is highlighted in the overarching title of your project, Messina/Musina. What is its significance? PH: Musina is situated just south of the […]
David Goldblatt – Afrikaners Photographed and Revisited (1975-2006)
“The ideology and apparatus of apartheid and the overwhelming power of the state to crush opposition became ever more present in our lives.” Some Afrikaners Photographed, 1975 – Some Afrikaners Revisited, 2006 By David Goldblatt, Johannesburg, South Africa, 2006 I was born and grew up in Randfontein, a gold-mining town 40 kilometres west of […]