Two-day conference on May 6 and 7 on the campus of Columbia University in Manhattan’s Upper West Side : About these ads
Lagos Transformation
January 28, 2011 By Leave a Comment
Aperture recently announced its 2010 Portfolio Prize. The winner is Swiss photographer David Favrod, whose photographs explore his mixed Swiss-Japanese identity. We are, however, more interested in the work of one of the four runners-up Julian Röder. Röder’s series, “Lagos Transformation,” is “… centered around a simple concept—the interchange of chaos and order. Röder’s cityscapes […]
David Adjaye’s Urban Africa
September 16, 2010 By 8 Comments
For a while now I’ve been wanting to post some of the images by celebrated architect David Adjaye‘s to “… photograph and document key cities in Africa as part of an ongoing project to study new patterns of urbanism.” It is also part of Adjaye’s “… personal quest … to address the scant knowledge of […]
Staying Alive in Johannesburg
February 8, 2010 By 1 Comment
Part 1, above, of the Dutch TV documentary film, “Staying Alivein Joburg.” The film is limited in its focus–its primarily a walk through inner city Johannesburg ahead of the 2010 World Cup. We get no sense of life in the city’s richer, and whiter, northern suburbs. But it is definitely a must see and a thousand times […]
CONFERENCE / ‘TUNING IN TO AFRICAN CITIES’
November 9, 2009 By Leave a Comment
Notice for an academic conference to be held in Birmingham, UK, in May next year:
