A World in Common is a European exhibition with African content, rather than a space that invites conversations and engagement that go beyond the images themselves.
Yevonde prints hanging to dry in the studio of artist Katayoun Dowlatshahi.
Katayoun Dowlatshahi
Male and female artists have different perspectives to offer - and no less so within the photography world.
A photograph by Oliver de Ros presents a different impression of the migrants at the Guatemalan border than the standard tropes published. Migrants bound for the U.S.-Mexico border wait on a bridge that stretches over the Suchiate River, connecting Guatemala and Mexico, Friday, Oct. 19, 2018.
(AP Photo/Oliver de Ros)
Photographs can influence us – they can inspire us to act and they can also impact the way we think about issues. The recent published photos about the migrant ‘caravan’ convey several stereotypes.
Graeme Williams’s photograph he took in Thokoza township, near Johannesburg, in 1991. Police watch an ANC rally.
Graeme Williams
It was only in the late 1990s, as the world became more interested in South African photographers’ work, that Goldblatt’s work was identified as extraordinary.
A farmer’s son with his nursemaid, Heimweeberg, Nietverdiend, Western Transvaal 1964.
David Goldblatt
It’s easier than ever to visually record our lives thanks to the smartphone and now Snapchat glasses, but many museums and other places are fighting a losing and misguided battle against the trend.
Utopianism is a neglected prism through which to view Africa. It is the space where the intricacies of decolonisation and independence can be properly comprehended.