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Through ambitious shows staged around the world, the curator raised the profile of African art and photography.
Through her ambitious curating, writing, and teaching in Africa and beyond, Silva was a force for change in contemporary art.
The legacy of Mali’s influential photography biennial.
Asserting black identity, photographers take center stage at a bold new museum.
How can listening to images reveal the visual histories of the African diaspora?
Fatoumata Diabate’s traveling studio revives the golden age of Malian studio portraiture.
An intimate conversation with filmmaker Amelia Umuhire.
In searing and poetic images, Andrew Tshabangu chronicles Johannesburg in the age of democracy.
Two writers speak about the influential role—and responsibility—of art criticism in Africa today.
In a studio outside of Cape Town, photographer Nico Krijno refashions sculpture and performance.
AMET (Elsa M’bala) speaks with Christine Eyene and Landry Mbassi about YaPhoto.
How are artists rethinking documentary in North Africa?
Looking to vintage photos and alternative processes, an Angolan Portuguese artist engages the infinite possibilities of an image.
In photographs and photomontages, the Madagascar-born artist considers the global reverberations of African culture.
Eric Gyamfi reflects on his activism, photography, and telling the stories of West Africa’s queer communities.
Aida Muluneh, founder of the Addis Foto Fest, speaks about how education plays a central role in connecting African photographers.
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.
