Tag: Glenna Gordon
Glenna Gordon: LagosPhoto 2012
November 2012A month-long photography festival aims to capture the spirit of one of Africa’s biggest and busiest cities.
Hipstamatic Revolution
September 2012Avoiding the simplistic narratives of Afro-pessimism and Afro-optimism, photographer Peter diCampo uses photo-apps to represent everyday Africa.
Glenna Gordon: Andrea Stultiens’s Images of Emptiness
July 2012Photos of empty performance spaces in Lagos capture the spirit of Fela Kuti’s famous nightclub and strip back the chaos of one of the world’s busiest cities.
Candace Feit: Order in the Loud and Dirty
March 2012Candace Feit on her work exploring loneliness and solitude among fishermen in Tamil Nadu, on India’s south coast.
Northern Uganda, Visible
March 2012Kony 2012 is the starting point—but not the ending point—for this collection of images
Stanley Greene: Nigerians Documenting Nigerians
March 2012The famous documentary photographer on the importance of Nigerians archiving their own history.
Lagos Photo Festival
December 2011A selection of work from the 2011 Lagos Photo Festival by forty photographers from around the world.
Glenna Gordon: Liberia’s Fraught Election
November 2011 |
Photographer Glenna Gordon captures Liberia’s first independent presidential elections and the rough aftermath. |
Glenna Gordon: “Two Wives: Nollywood”
September 2011 |
A series of photographs inspired by Nigeria’s film industry that demonstrates the possibility for multiple narratives within the same space. |
Off the Grid
June 2011A photographer and former Peace Corps volunteer in Ghana observes the beauty of the dark and the politics of electricity. (With video.)
Glenna Gordon: “The Secret Lives of Gay Ugandans”
February 2011 |
Last week David Kato, an openly gay activist in Uganda, was brutally murdered after a local paper published his name and photograph. Glenna Gordon speaks about the effects of Kato’s death within Uganda’s gay community. |
