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Interviews

Tracing Africa’s Photographic History in Books

The curator Oluremi C. Onabanjo speaks about Africa’s political transformations and the role of publishing in shaping artistic knowledge.

Introducing

In Sierra Leone, a Photographer Finds Beauty in Everyday Encounters

Abdul Hamid Kanu Jr.’s images of daily life transform a West African city into its own poetic universe.

Portfolios

In Tavares Strachan’s Collages, Double Meanings and Colliding Histories

Strachan speaks of his work in terms of a West African street festival where dance, poetry, music, and the performing arts are jumbled together in an exuberant whole.

Marilyn Nance, Mid-festival, the first contingent of FESTAC ’77 U.S. participants greets the second U.S. contingent at the Lagos airport, 1977

Essays

When the Party Came to Lagos

In 1977, when the photographer Marilyn Nance traveled to Nigeria for FESTAC, she discovered a euphoric reunion of the African Diaspora.

Interviews

The Lives of Samuel Fosso

The acclaimed photographer pushes self-portraiture into new realms of gender-bending theatricality.

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Aperture’s issue on craft features photographers who make pictures the slow way—building camera obscuras, creating photograms, and laboring in traditional darkrooms to make handmade, unrepeatable forms.

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