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Frankfurt photographer Ana Paula dos Santos deconstructs ‘A Place in the Sun’ in her eponymous series
A place in the sun, (German: Ein Platz in der Sonne) is a phrase heavy with longing. It is credited to the Foreign affairs Minister of the German Empire, Bernhard von Bülow. Refe..
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..
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..
