Jo Ractliffe: Under a State of Emergency
“Ractliffe’s work, whether consciously or not, emerges at a time when the impossibility of representing experience started to gain purchase in discussions around the medium’s shortfalls.”
Tag Archives: Africa
Samuel Fosso Autoportrait SIX SIX SIX
"Our point of view of the self is hidden and although personal subjectivity is widely considered to be the foundation of image-making at present, we have deluded ourselves for a great number of years suggesting that photography could ever be anything more than the self exposed through images of the exterior." The greatest gift [...]
Guy Tillim: Things Come Together
“It is this binary position that implies the view that African colonization created only victims incapable of looking after themselves, impotent against their oppressors and incompetent without.”
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.”
Emmanuelle Andrianjafy: Nothing’s in Vain
“Everything about the city made me uncomfortable and raised questions: the landscape, the atmosphere, the situation, the agitation, etc. It seemed so imperfect. I wanted to understand this chaos.” To the West, is the Atlantic Ocean and the Americas. Facing East, the huge Sahara Desert. The city of Dakar in Senegal sits in between these […]
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.”
Elly Rwakoma: Sinking All the Tricks.
“He recalls developing his negatives by moonlight, having to make his way to the ferry on a road thick with often-time un-negotiable elephant herds. He tells of carrying his chemicals with him and cutting down his negatives to get a surplus of possibilities. I never had this.”
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 […]
Alec Baldwin with Peter Beard: The Elephant Attack
“I was completely blind by the way. My optic nerve had been bounced off. I couldn’t see a goddamn thing. I had a huge hole in my leg, went right through here.”
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…
Tracy Edser, Lisa King, Nadine Hutton, Alexia Webster, Nontsikelelo Veleko – “POV Johannesburg” (2013)
from Urban Life: Beauty is in the Name of the Beholder @ Nontsikelelo Veleko POV Female Johannesburg, REVIEW. By Fanny Landstrom, for ASX, July 2013 POV Female Johannesburg – five young female artists featured in a limited edition box of 100 copies. POV stands for Point Of View and has featured artists from London (2011), Tokyo […]
Jean Depara: “Kinshasa” (1951-1975)
Lemvo Jean Abou Bakar Depara, known as Depara (1928–1997), was an Angolan-born photographer who worked in the Democratic Republic of Congo. Depara purchased his first video camera to record his wedding in 1950; four years later, he was made official photographer to the Zairian singer Franco. In 1975 he became official photographer to the […]