George Osodi “Untitled” (2008) from the series Devil’s Dexterity, chromogenic print (image courtesy the artist and Z Photographic, ltd., photo by the author for Hyperallergic) For me, The Expanded ...

In the 1880s, just a few decades after the first photographs were taken in Africa, African and American photographers traveled the continent catering to elites. “There were African photographers who ...

Five years ago, Dr. Steven Dubin, a sociologist at Columbia, was on a research trip in South Africa when a friend suggested that he should take a look at a box full of photo negatives that she had in ...

The dominant perception of early photography from West Africa is that it was taken through a colonizing lens. Of Europeans in the mid-19th century spreading through the arteries of the region, new ...

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Thandiwe Muriu was 14 years old when she found photography. Her father taught her to use his Nikon digital camera, and every day after school she would rush home, finish her homework and then train ...

A young man clowns around with a bicycle or two. Cardi B strikes a pose. A man in a camouflage uniform blends into camouflage wallpaper but the flowers he holds are an explosion of color. These are ...

Arresting portraits, now a part of the Smithsonian collections, illuminate the little-known role these artists played in chronicling 19th-century life Rhoda Goodridge in a 2 ¾-by-3 ¼-inch ambrotype ...