Amazing. More than any other continent, Africas development has been dictated and perverted by foreign greed, and likewise its image has been defined by the foreign lens. That is the cage of stereotype which the best African photographers have fought to escape for the past 60 years: often rejecting the Western obsession with traditional ceremony and costume, rejecting similarly the associations with violence, poverty and mayhem, sometimes rejecting even the notion of Africa itself - insisting instead on the vast array of identities that have germinated in the continents soil. The worlds first virtual auction of contemporary African fine-art photography, on 28 May, offers a unique perspective on a growing body of work that has come a long way since Malick Sidibés classic formal studio portraits, which were inspired by the anonymous work of a thousand jobbing photographers across the continent. via Manori Neelika Jayawardane.
Posted on: Tue, 13 May 2014 12:41:09 +0000
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