David Adjaye's Urban Africa
For a while now I’ve been wanting to post some of the images by celebrated architect
Photography
The Poors
The Boston Globe’s “Big Picture” site has also published Reuters photographer Finbarr O’Reilly’s widely circulated series
Simple Football
Belgian photographer captures grassroots football in 30 villages across 10 countries in west and southern Africa.
Zwelethu Mthethwa @ The Studio Museum
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cy_ri7XJik0&w=500&h=281&rel=0] Via Todd Johnson: Opening on Thursday, July 15, at the Studio Museum in Harlem, some
Brussels is Africa
[slideshow] Our man in Brussels, Tom de Vriendt, sent on information on some Africa-themed exhibitions on
Postcard from Johannesburg
The photographer Krisanne Johnson believes you can learn many things about a country by the way youth live—from fashion to music to home environments.
Tell ’em to skate
The first, and only, half-pipe in East Africa, built entirely by the youth from the Kampala suburb of Kitintale.
Rainer Elstermanns' "Photo Studio"
[slideshow] The German photographer, Rainer Elstermanns, imagined an old photo studio set in rural Kenya in
African Hospitality
The artist Andrew Putter make use of the past to construct images of how we might live together in the future.
Goal!
The cover of the May issue of the Spanish edition of Esquire gets into the World
Photography: 'New Men'
[slideshow] From new work by Cape Town-based photographer Araminta de Clarmont. A photo series on ikrwala
Paul Sika, "Andy Warhol’s grandson"
The very talented Ivorian artist Paul Sika (I’ve linked to Paul’s work last year on my
Nigerian ram fighting
No this is not a comment on Nigerian politics. Instead, the BBC website has a great
The Rape of Africa
Celebrity photographer David LaChapelle chose Naomi Campbell to represent how Africa is raped for its resources. Did it work?
Rankin does South Africa
British fashion photographer Rankin sets out on 'his own personal journey' to understand South Africa. The result is actually quite good.
Photography: Delphine Diaw Diallo
The subjects in photographer Delphine Diaw Diallo’s series “Renaissance,” are portrayed as “… heroes of ancient
David Goldblatt @ The Jewish Museum
A major retrospective of David Goldblatt‘s photographs opens next month at the Jewish Museum on the
The Tuk-Ham Festival
Via Jeremy Weate at Naijablog: “Photos by Brian Blazek. The Tuk-Ham festival takes place each year
Apartheid was a White Party on Steroids
Annie Liebovitz's insights of South Africa under apartheid was quite ordinary: basically she sound like every other white visitor.