Their goal was to turn away from the “ethnographic lens”—the news imagery of famine and war that dominated media coverage of Africa—in favor of the artistic voices that defined African photography, from the gracious studio portraiture of midcentury Mali to the poetic, long-form reportage of David Goldblatt and Santu Mofokeng in South Africa.
Jon Rafman’s Instagram profile shows an image of the artist at work.
The Eastern European Perspective, curated by Tomáš Glanc and Sabine Hänsgen, with Diego Giannettoni and Valentina Parisi as co-curators, on display at Fabbrica del Vapore in Milan from 5 to 17 December 2025.
I aim to capture the atmosphere, the feeling of a place, allowing the viewer to sense the human stories woven into the very fabric of the architecture," said Araya.
The Palace of Versailles, one of France’s most iconic cultural institutions, has launched a renewed provenance investigation into a prized sketchbook by the celebrated Neoclassical painter Jacques-Louis David, following revelations that the notebook was looted by the Nazis during World War II.
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