#african photographer

[dominairae]

“Gold With A Mind of Its Own”, a photographic series by Nigerian-Guyanese filmmaker and photographer Chelsea Odufu

She explores the relationship that the Akan people of Côte d'Ivoire share with gold—a metal with rich spiritual & socio-political associations

[manufactoriel]

Kita, (1960's) by Felix Diallo

[andikanstudios]

sunday mornings in Lagos, Nigeria.

despite our collective sufferings as a nation we still wake up very early on sundays to go serve our maker.

photography by

© andikan 2024

also available in prints upon request.

[itswadestore]

Unknown, RDC

[lorrainekinnearphotographs]

Dudu T, 2021

[lecklect]

An adding of experiences and knowledge

Johannesburg, 2014

[sheltiechicago]

Joana Choumali: HERE I STAND, 2022

This new work by Joana Choumali, the first African photographer to win the Prix Pictet, in 2019, is from her ongoing series Albahian. In it, she photographs her surroundings at dawn before layering the images with embroidery. She says: ‘I have come to understand that what I was hoping to find in my journeys abroad, I finally discovered in my own home’

All photographs: courtesy the artist/Prix Pictet/gestalten

[mirror-bug]

@radkindoffeminist okay so I found this article that I think you'd like right? It has a short introduction to a few African female photographers as well as a brief intro to colonial photography! It's interesting and I've never heard of any of these people before?? So much of the famous photographer space is devoted to white Americans and others don't get the light they deserve.

Read this article! It's so interesting!!

[sitting-on-me-bum]

The African wild ass foal was born at Marwell Zoo in the U.K. on Aug. 20. 

(Image credit: Marwell Zoo)

[blooming-lenses]

african lilies

2024/07/13

[dominairae]

Felicia Ewuraesi Abban (nee Ansah), born in 1935 and known as Ghana’s first woman photographer

[manufactoriel]

Couple dans une noix de kola, Bamako, circa 1940-1950, by Mountaga Dembélé

[originalhaffigaza]

[lorrainekinnearphotographs]

Kyla K, 2023

[lecklect]

Go ahead and charter uncharted territories this week, don’t hold back. ✨

[flowerishness]

Osteospermum alt. Dimorphotheca (African daisy)

These African daisies are basking in a sunny spot but as the sun slowly sets and the shadows lengthen, their petals will start to close. No point in all that fancy advertising if the bees are fast asleep in their hive. As the morning light touches the petals, the African daisy will unfurl them again. Plants that close their petals at night are called phototropic, not to be confused with heliotropic plants (like sunflowers) that follow the sun during the day.