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From 31 January to 12 February 2011, the Génération Elili collective from Brazzaville and the Afrique In Visu platform ran an intercultural Research and Photography workshop on how to structure…

Following the success of the Atelier Photo Panafricain d’Accra in 2009, this second springboard workshop before the Biennial elected to focus on the work of up-and-coming photographers in Ghana.To run…

In the last twenty years, African photography from the 1950s–1970s has received huge attention worldwide and a whole host of exhibitions and publications have been devoted to it. Interest in…

When Samuel Sidibé contacted me to design an exhibition based on an African collection for the 9th Encounters of Bamako, I didn’t hesitate for an instant, the idea seemed so…

From 10 to 13 November 2011, the week after the Encounters of Bamako opens, the Paris Photo Fair will be celebrating its 15th anniversary at the Grand Palais. African photography…

We can now kiss caution farewell, because daring means being free and declaring it. This is the way Tunisia has gone. It has vented its anger and said “No!” to…

Héla Ammar, Sophia Baraket,Wissal Dargueche, Rania Dourai, Hichem Driss, AzizTnani Artocratie en Tunisie, the first of JR’s Inside Out projects, was instigated by Slim Zeghal and Marco Berrebi.…

When I was asked by Michket Krifa and Coralie Desmurs of the Institut Français to produce a compilation of time-based works by visual artists on the theme of the 2011…

We have great myths about our Egyptian army. One could write a whole mythology book. I often watch my children playing with Amazonian military characters on their PS3, and grow…