African Photo Magazine Issue #6

Photo books to read
Photo galleries to visit
Everyday Africa
(available on Amazon.com)
30 Photographers Re-Picturing
a Continent, published by Kehrer
Verlag, showcases photos of ordinary
life in Africa that find beauty in stories
rarely seen—shifting perception
from the sensationalized extremes
to a more textured, familiar reality.
Photographs run alongside sections
of Instagram commentary inspired by
the images. The comments can be
lighthearted one moment and caustic
the next, speaking volumes about
widely held perceptions of Africa
while underscoring the continent’s
increased connectivity in a globalized
world.
Haute Africa
(available on Amazon.com)
This book presents a different side
of a continent where fashion and
design, crucially generate wealth.
This flourishing creativity is expressed
within a vibrant and growing fashion
industry. International and African
photographers and artists are
increasingly visible within the fashion
scene with their inspired take on
African identity.
Anthology of African Photography
(available on revuenoire.com)
Presenting a comprehensive
chronicle of African photography, this
work includes over 500 images by 160
photographers from the mid-1800s
to the present. From photography’s
introduction to Africa by European
countries that needed to keep an eye
on their colonies, to its recent use as
a documentary tool against apartheid
and for independence, its history
encompasses, like the continent
itself, a colorful and multi-faceted
narrative of oppression and struggle,
liberation and birth.
Art Twenty One, Nigeria
1415 Adetokunbo Ademola Street,
Victoria Island, Lagos
Art Twenty One is a space dedicated
to fostering the growing art scene in
Lagos. The gallery presents local and
regional artists, as well as new contemporary
art projects.
Photo festivals to attend
First Floor Gallery, Zimbabwe
31 Lyric Heights, 3rd Floor, 149
Samora Machel Avenue, Harare
As Zimbabwe’s first international
emerging art gallery, First Floor Gallery
Harare supports the career development
of young local artists. This
artist-run gallery fosters education,
experimentation, and exchange to
develop a promising future for the
artists it represents.
Espace doual’art, Cameroon
Place du Gouvernement, Douala
Located in the historic center of
Douala, Cameroon, doual’art space
is a contemporary gallery and studio
that focuses on promoting new practices
in African art. The gallery hosts
seven exhibitions a year in addition to
seminars, workshops, and lectures.
P hoto competitions you should enter
Rencontres de Bamako 11th edition, co-produced by the
Ministry of Culture of Mali and the French Institute, will be
held from 2 December 2017 to 31 January 2018.
The sites are a beginner photographers
dream when it comes to finding
and getting into photo contests. They
provide a number of small contests
running year-round and in a wide
variety of photography genres.
www.pdnonline.com/contests/
http://shoottheframe.com/
http://www.amateurphotographer.co.uk/apoy
Organized since 1994, with the support of the Africa and
Caribbean Creations program, whose aim is to work for
the development of contemporary African creation, the
Rencontres de Bamako is the first and largest event devoted
to photography and video in Africa. A key event for
cooperation between France and Mali, a real place of
discovery, exchange and visibility, the Rencontres de Bamako
is an essential platform for the revelation of African
photographers.
LagosPhoto is the first and only international arts festival
of photography in Nigeria. The festival presents photography
as it is embodied in the exploration of historical
and contemporary issues, the promotion of social programmes,
and the reclamation and engagement of public
spaces in showcasing contemporary photography. The
eighth edition of the annual LagosPhoto Festival will run
from October 21 to November 20, 2017, and is themed Regimes
of Truth.
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