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the id book
Posted in photography, tagged AIDS, identity book, Jonathan Hyams, photography, South Africa on June 18, 2009 | 4 Comments »
Femi Kuti Live
Posted in Music, photography, tagged Afrobeat, Brooklyn, Femi Kuti, live music, Nigeria on June 11, 2009 | 2 Comments »
If you missed Femi Kuti’s show at Irving Plaza in New York City last week (like I did), these photographs by Jen Mazer gives a sense of the energy of his performance. Anyway, he’s back in New York City later this month (June 25th), playing at the Bandshell at Brooklyn’s Prospect Park.
the beach boys
Posted in photography, tagged Arise Magazine, beach boys, beach culture, Nigeria, photography, South Africa, surfing, This Day on June 4, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
ARISE Magazine (the glossy of Nigerian newspaper, THIS DAY), photo essay on a group of surfers in South Africa.
mobile cinemas
Posted in film, photography, tagged Cinéma Numérique Ambulant, cinema, film, mobile cinemas, photography on May 21, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
A series of photographs documenting the work of the French-based Cinéma Numérique Ambulant (CNA), which provides mobile digital cinemas to communities in Benin, Niger and Mali. The photographs are by Meyer.
liberian girl
Posted in blogs, photography, tagged Blogging, Blogs worth checking out, Glenna Gordon, Liberia, Uganda on May 20, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Not the showbusiness vision of Michael Jackson, but the photography of Glenna Gordon who also doubles as blogger Scarlett Lion, an American writer, photojournalist and reporter, formerly based in Uganda, and now in Liberia. One of the blogs I visit regularly.
photography, Paul Sika
Posted in photography, tagged African photographers, Cote d'Ivoire, Paul Sika, photog, photography on May 11, 2009 | 1 Comment »
The Cote d’Ivorian photographer gets interviewed by Feature Shoot. (His own site). HT: Frederic Tapé
‘fabolous fictions’
Posted in art, photography, tagged art, fabolous fictions, Jasper de Beijer, photography on May 11, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Jasper de Beijer, Udongo 08, 2009. Courtesy Galerie Nouvelles Images, Den Haag “… Jasper de Beijer play[s] with reality in [his] photographs. After all, a photograph shows what is seen through the lens. However, what if that is not actually reality, but a specially constructed version of reality? … [D]e Beijer goes even further: he [...]
it wasn’t rugby
Posted in photography, tagged apartheid, British and Irish Lions, Dennis Brutus, rugby, South Africa on May 6, 2009 | 2 Comments »
The British and Irish Lions rugby team is touring South Africa this month. A series of fifteen captioned photographs presented in a slideshow on The Guardian’s website recalls an earlier, controversial tour by the Lions to Apartheid South Africa in 1974. This picture was taken after a game between the Lions and a local team [...]
in shape
Posted in photography, tagged Annie Liebovitz, artist, photography, Wangechi Mutu on April 4, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
‘… While working on a project for Prospect. I, the inaugural New Orleans art biennial, [Kenyan artist Wangechi] Mutu decided she’d like to have a portrait taken of herself [by photographer Annie Liebovitz] while pregnant. “I wanted to get a pregnancy picture taken that would be outside the pure, maternal kind, which are beautiful but [...]
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