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 ...

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 ...

Some essays originally presented at the conference "Portrait Photography in African Worlds" (February 3-4, 2006), University of California, Santa Cruz. Introduction : the study of photographic ...

During the colonial period, the camera became something of an imperial device, as Western images defined narratives about the history, culture, and identity of the African continent. Now, in its first ...

*The photographer behind the stunning image of 5-year-old Jare (see above), dubbed ‘the most beautiful girl in the world’, is blowing up across social media, with folks hailing her other unique pieces ...

The second edition of 1:54 Contemporary African Art Fair opened today at Pioneer Works in Red Hook, Brooklyn. Seventeen galleries from all over the world have convened to exhibit the work of ...

Clockwise from top left: Untitled, 1956-57, by Seydou Keïta; Jeune Homme Pattes D'Éléphant Sacoche et Montre (young Man with Bell Bottoms, Bag, and Watch), 1977, by Malick Sidibé; Untitled, 1956, by ...

On view now at the Art Gallery of Ontario (AGO), Re-Mixing African Photography: Kelani Abass, Mallory Lowe Mpoka and Abraham Oghobase presents new and recent works by three contemporary African ...

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 ...

The Smithsonian American Art Museum in Washington, DC, has purchased a groundbreaking collection of images by some of history’s earliest Black photographers. Pictures from the first African ...