Two writers speak about the influential role—and responsibility—of art criticism in Africa today.
An ambitious exhibition grapples with the conditions of our time — but can images provoke social change?
In a studio outside of Cape Town, photographer Nico Krijno refashions sculpture and performance.
With dark humor, the photographer plays with perception, space, and surface.
In Crimea and the Caribbean, Nicholas Muellner’s new photobook is a tropical gothic of seduction and violence.
AMET (Elsa M’bala) speaks with Christine Eyene and Landry Mbassi about YaPhoto.
At the world’s most prestigious contemporary art exhibition, photographers are on the margins.
How are artists rethinking documentary in North Africa?
In Panama City, five photographic projects tackle the contradictions of urban life.
Looking to vintage photos and alternative processes, an Angolan Portuguese artist engages the infinite possibilities of an image.
With a rush of color, David Benjamin Sherry’s new photograms gesture to abstract painting and gay history.
In photographs and photomontages, the Madagascar-born artist considers the global reverberations of African culture.
In her solo exhibition at the Venice Biennale, the Australian photographer spins stories of displacement.
For Bronwyn Law-Viljoen, publisher of Fourthwall Books, the photobook is a space for political and social history.
Aida Muluneh, founder of the Addis Foto Fest, speaks about how education plays a central role in connecting African photographers.
In an interview from 1973, Henri Cartier-Bresson spoke frankly about the early days of Magnum.
In Bamako, a group of young photographers engage a changing city.
In poetic, politically charged images and videos, Zineb Sedira confronts the recent history of North Africa.
Aperture’s fall issue, “Arrhythmic Mythic Ra,” refracts themes of family, social history, and the astrophysical through the eyes of guest editor Deana Lawson, one of the most compelling photographers working today.
