In 2004, the exhibition “Africa Remix” opened in Europe just as interest in contemporary African art was spreading worldwide. Twenty years later, does the show—and others of the era—still hold up?
In an interview for his new monograph, Fosso spoke with the late curator Okwui Enwezor about his teenage self-portraits and how all his work concerns the question of power.
An exhibition at Yossi Milo Gallery captures the dizzying array of post-independence African photography.
The acclaimed photographer pushes self-portraiture into new realms of gender-bending theatricality.
Samuel Fosso, a master of theatrical self-portraiture, turns toward the icons of Mao-era China.
The Met has mounted its first-ever exhibition of West African photographs. But is the museum late to the party?
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.
