Hidden agency, bare desire, and quiet possession take form in Chaozhou-born, London-based
Colonial frameworks have oriented most of us to think of African art as a set of artifacts defining ancient civilizations or, using the lens of ethnography, as ritual objects isolated from the larger human phenomenon of creative expression.
The Harmattan Festival was born from a desire to explore how photography can become a tool for rethinking the African imagination, building new connections between…
It also aligns with the 40th anniversary of the photobook’s publication.
Amy Sherald’s Trans Forming Liberty (2024) was to have been part of a traveling exhibition of her work at the National Portrait Gallery.
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