Malick Sidibe – Africa is a Country

Legendary Malian photographer Malick Sidibé passed away on April 14. Immediately following his death, we published a sh…

I have never been to Bamako, never been to Malick Sidibé’s studio in that city. In the later years, he would receive vis…

Never in my wildest dreams did I imagine that I would find myself in Malick Sidibé’s iconic studio space – at Porte 632 …

This year marks the 20th anniversary of the New York African Film Festival. The Festival–from April 3rd to the 9th…

In Egypt earlier this year I was taken by my host to a nightclub in downtown Cairo where I was introduced to a cosmopoli…

Is African studio photography, Cape Town art writer Sean O’Toole asks in frieze magazine, dying out? The answer, non-sub…

I am shooting these on my iPhone. They’re short, no-frills interviews done in my office. The format is simple: The…

Preview (and more information in French) of images from the exhibition, “The Ritual of the pose–Africa in bl…

The German photographer, Rainer Elstermanns, imagined an old photo studio set in rural Kenya in his studio in Berlin. He…

Two weeks ago the results of the World Press Awards were announced. The prize winners included a number of striking imag…

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