#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

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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.

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Dudu T, 2021

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An adding of experiences and knowledge

Johannesburg, 2014

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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

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Omo Valley, Ethiopia — The many tribes living along the Omo River are renowned for their unique, ecstatic ritual decoration. Their customs and awe inspiring appearance have been the subject of decades of research.

Children of the Kwegu people, known for their intricate flower headdresses and face paint.

Photographer: Hans Sylvester

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@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!!

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

(Image credit: Marwell Zoo)

[dominairae]

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

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BLACK HISTORY MONTH: Celebrating Artist Gordon Parks!

In a 2001 interview with the oral history project The History Makers, American photographer and filmmaker Gordon Parks (1912-2006) was asked to define his profession: “I think I was an artist,” he says, “photographer, writer, painter, poet, film director, and a lover.” He laughs. “Renaissance man. That’s what we call a lover” He might’ve added musician, composer, and documentarian. Parks was born in Kansas in 1912, left home at fifteen after the death of his mother, played piano and sang in brothels for money, worked in a Chicago flop house after the stock market crash, and found himself inspired by FSA photographs in the 1930s. After receiving work as a commercial photographer, he won a Julius Rosenwald Fellowship for his work documenting Chicago’s South Side, and was invited to join the Farm Security Administration himself.

The photographs highlighted here are drawn from his work at this early point in his long and dynamic career. They are reprinted in the 2018 book Gordon Parks : The New Tide, Early Work, 1940-1950, edited by Philip Brookman, consulting curator of photography at the National Gallery of Art. The book captures Parks’ work in and out of commercial photography, government projects, celebrity profiles, and his early years with LIFE magazine – where he would work until it stopped monthly publication in 1972. Parks was known for earning the trust of his subjects, and not betraying it. In a remembrance of Parks by one of his former editors at LIFE, Barbara Baker Burrows recalls Parks’ charm, and the confidence he earned, whether he was capturing foreign militaries, street gangs, celebrities, or civil servants. Parks died in 2006 at the age of 93.

For more about Gordon Parks and his legacy, visit The Gordon Parks Foundation.

See more Black History Month posts.

--Amanda, Special Collections Graduate Intern

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Arctotis (African Daisy)

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@ifeoluwani_oladimeji in @nyosi.brand

photography by

© andikan 2025.

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Kyla K, 2023

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african lilies

2024/07/13

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