Okay, I was so excited to see that Malick Sidibé won that I put up a blog post about it instantly. Now, hours later as my internet struggles to keep up with my photo-looking-desires, I realize that there are a couple of great photos from Africa of the total non-poverty porn vien included in the winners this year. Check out Francesco Giusti’s pictures of the sappeurs society in Congo, and Joan Bardeletti’s photo of a picnic on the beach in Mozambique, an aerial shot of JR’s awesome installation in Kiberia, and Denis Rouvre’s images of Senegalese wrestlers. There’s also plenty of standard fare that I won’t spend time linking to here, but, I’m happy to see these four examples mixed in.
Maybe this will be a good year for media in and about Africa. I certainly hope so.
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I hope so too. I am heading a bloggers action later in the year looking at the intersections of Race and Photography. I hope we’ll be able to show the diversity of opinion and maybe shape some opinions!?
The sappeurs have always been a favourite of mine.
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I heart Malick Sidibe. His photo of a family on a moto is my desktop. Thanks for linking to the wrestler photos from Senegal — hadn’t seen those. (Though I DID want to do a portrait series on them, and this should be my lesson to DO something instead of sitting on an idea
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Thanks for the good links!
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