The Bang Bang Club
Journalists in South Africa are picking up on how the film, "The Bang Bang Club," treats some of the Bang Bang Club's black colleagues. And other Weekend Specials.
Photography
Spinning in Gauteng
Journalist/photographer Chris Parkinson, who lives in Johannesburg, has shot this short film about car spinning in
The people of Blikkiesdorp
Photographer Lizane Louw chronicles the people of Blikkiesdorp, a temporary relocation camp on Cape Town's Cape Flats.
Happy Birthday Nelson Mandela
South Africa’s first democratic president is 93 years old today. The artwork is a collaboration between
White Wedding
The internets have been rightly outraged at a white couple, “Dave and Chantal,” who decided on
Naija, London
Photographer Liz Johnson Artur, first arrived in Peckham, London, 20 years ago to live. A neighborhood
'Imagine life without photos'
A worthwhile project by two Canadian brothers who grew up in 1970s Liberia–it still feels like
The Cost of Oil to Nigeria
“Nigeria is the world’s 8th largest producer of crude oil, yet remains one of its poorest
Street Photographer
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qHxFJgqicZw&w=560&h=349] Charlie Ahearn’s new documentary of Brooklyn photographer Jamal Shabazz screening on June 26 at the
'African Air'
Georgr Steinmetz’s Africa. Watch it here. More on Steinmetz here.
Goksin Sipahioglu
One of the highlights of a recent trip to Istanbul–dominated by run-ins with operatives of a
Nigeria Votes
Benedicte Kurzen’s often graphic images of the recent (April 16) presidential elections in Nigeria and its
Tim Hetherington 1970-2011
The war and conflict photographer Tim Hetherington started his career in the conflicts in Liberia and Sierra Leone, where he did not just photograph war.
Street Party, Johannesburg
The series Security [by photographer Mikhael Subotzky] takes as its subject the guards employed for protection
Stereo Wizards
Electronic rap duo and “stereo wizards” Dirty Paraffin at the Faraday Muthi Market in downtown Johannesburg
Nairobi in April
Writer Mike Pflanz and photographer Brendan Bannon’s new site Daily Dispatches: Nairobi “… is an innovative
ZAM Goes International
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jEe96sQsRg4&hd=1 You know we like the Dutch magazine ZAM. The promised English edition is (almost) here.
Scarlet Lion
The American documentary photographer and photojournalist, Glenna Gordon, talks on five photographers who influenced her work.