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Àsìkò’s visual representation of emotions | The personal becomes universal

Ade Okelarin is the London-born Lagos bred artist who goes by the name Àsìkò. Using photography, mixed media and film, his works explore complex, multidimensional themes such as ..

Silvia Rosi is inverting the classic West African studio portrait to retell her family’s history

At first, an image by the London-based Italian-Togolaise artist Silvia Rosi might strike the viewer as eerily familiar, and yet somehow fresh: vintage and thoroughly contemporary..

‘Centropy’ | Deana Lawson and Black Image Matters

There are at least two liminal frames that offer themselves when looking at images of Black people. The first is that on a fundamental level, images generally and images of Black..

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Open Call For Images | GRIOT curates next Guest Room over at Der Greif

Griot founder and creative director has been invited to curate a Guest Room online exhibition over at Der Greif, award-winning international organization for contemporary photogr..

Delphine Diallo | ‘I’ve become a better person, believing in women’

The Covid pandemic has forced many of us to be confined at home and take stock of our life. The dos and the don’ts, the many questions we ask ourselves are taking different shape..

The Rusinga Drip | A fashion story by Kenyan collective Urbanpitchaz

Urbanpitchaz, a rising fashion photography and fashion film collective based in Nairobi presents Fella Suti and Ibaada. Shot at Rusinga Island on Kenya’s Lake Victoria and replet..

‘The New Black Vanguard’ | Antwaun Sargent on the visual vocabulary redefining the fashion industry—and society

Many years ago, on a very hot afternoon, I was enjoying a stracciatella gelato at the ice cream parlour Fior di Latte in Pétion Ville (Haiti), when my brother looked at me and s..

Flee’s latest project revisits Tarantism as a global aesthetic

If all we had was the written word, the ephemeral mysticism of rituals would be completely lost on us. We would run out adjectives faster than the performers of a ritual — in the..

A GLITCH IN THE SYSTEM | Deconstructing stereotypes at Photo Vogue Festival

Just a few days to go until the opening of the fourth edition of Photo Vogue Festival, an event promoting photographic culture in all its forms. As for the previous years, thi..

‘Water Life’ | Aïda Muluneh explores and highlights water crisis

Water shortage and lack of access to clean water are crucial issues that affect the lives of milions of people around the world, with a particularly devastating impact on the liv..