Tomorrow’s Marching Band
In the DRC, city life isn’t foremost defined by the image of the child soldier (contrary
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Replete with Color
Zachary Rosen, a former Peace Corps official, describes his favorite photographs to us.
The official Canadian view of South Africa
The Canadian High Commission to South Africa, probably meaning well or deliberately unaware of the emptiness
South Africa broke photographer Eve Arnold’s heart
From Financial Times profile of Eve Arnold, the brilliant American photographer who died in January 2012:
Film and Johannesburg’s Ponte City
The German writer Norman Ohler described Johannesburg’s Ponte City, Africa’s tallest residential building, thus: “Ponte sums
Germany has a version of GQ magazine
A woman in Germany removes her clothes and poses for a magazine photographer with her famous
The Tour of Rwanda
A series by photographer Mjrka Boensch Bees about the 2011 cycling tour in Rwanda. (Remember Philip
The Jews of Morocco
An interview with documentary photograpter, Aaron Elkaim, who explores the remains of Morocco's Jewish communities.
Spoek Mathambo’s World
The Soweto-born rapper-producer talks his biography and his influences.
Documenting Tuberculosis
In 2009, 1.7 million people died from TB globally, including 380,000 people living with HIV. The majority of deaths were in Africa.
Surfer dude
Surfing as leisure and a sport has historically been associated with whites in South Africa, though
A photograph cannot give you concrete information
Despite her reluctance, Zarina Bhimji's work does engage with her personal history of Indians' expulsion from Uganda.
Photographing Liberia
The latest entrant to our series where we ask photographers to talk to us about their five favorite images, is Glenna Gordon.
Afrikaner Bloods
Factual media reporting on how South African relationships and attitudes, especially between blacks and whites, evolve are hard to come by.
Remembering Tunisia
A series of public portraits by the young French-Algerian artist Bilel Kaltoun honors the martyrs of Tunisia's revolution.
The Hall of Shame
We couldn't resist including a post with some of the lowlights of 2011.
10 photographers to watch in 2012
As part of a series of year-end posts–we’re taking a break from Friday, December 23, till
Dances with Samburu
The Samburu of northern Kenya are pastoralists, and they are under attack. According to Survival International,
Brakpan
Brakpan is a declining mining town east of Johannesburg in South Africa. Photographer Marc Shoul‘s images
The afterlife of African studio photography
Is African studio photography, Cape Town art writer Sean O’Toole asks in frieze magazine, dying out? The answer,