Lagos Outtakes

 Lagos Outtakes

 Lagos Outtakes

 Lagos Outtakes

 Lagos Outtakes

 Lagos Outtakes

 Lagos Outtakes

 Lagos Outtakes

 Lagos Outtakes

I’m in Lagos for a bit, staying at the amazing African Artists Foundation, working on some exciting new projects and snapping away. More soon, but for now, I’m posting lots of photos on Instagram on my own account and also as part of the project EverydayAfrica. 

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IMG 6972 photo of the day: cafeteria map

Monrovia, October 2011

Glenna Gordon Andrea Stultiens’s Images of Emptiness Guernica A Magazine of Art Politics Guernica: Andrea Stultienss Images of Emptiness

New post up on Guernica Daily about the always interesting Andrea Stultiens.

Amazing images from space, microscopes, and life slowed down.

MALI articleLarge Teju Cole on the destruction of Timbuktu: It takes a lot of work to silence silent objects

The brilliant Teju Cole, blogging for the New Inquiry on about iconoclasism, the power of images and the destruction of Sufi shrines in Timbuktu:

Images are powerful. They can bring people into such a pitch of discomfort that violence ensues, and iconoclasm carries within itself two paradoxical traits: thoroughness and fury…. iconoclastic movements is that they are never about theology alone. They include politics, struggles for power, the effort to humiliate an enemy, and a demonstration of iconoclasts’ own neuroses. Behind iconoclastic bravado is a terror of magic, a belief in dead saints no less than that of iconophiles and, crucially, a historical anxiety that, in the Timbuktu case, is about presenting the bona fides of Ansar Dine to its Wahhabi models in Saudi Arabia and to Al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb.

That which doesn’t speak dumbfounds. After all, who can tell what such objects are thinking? Best to destroy the inscrutable, the ancient, if one is to truly usher in a pure new world. So, the invaders continue their work in Timbuktu with enthusiasm and good cheer, smashing pots, breaking bricks, rattling at the doors of the mosque. It takes a lot of work to silence silent objects. But already it is clear that not only the people watching from behind the gate are consumed with fear.

Great new work by Joe Penney from Mauritania.

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Football’s Lost Boys — Nigerian footballers stuck in Istanbul

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Paula+Scher+Africa Mapped and Named: Paula Schers graphic of Africa

 

Paula+Scher+Africa+2 Mapped and Named: Paula Schers graphic of Africa

 

In a hypothetical universe where I had £5000 that I had to spend on one object, it would definitely be a print of Paula Scher’s amazing map.

HT Moved to Monrovia 

In her TED talk, Scher talks about play and politics, solem work and serious work, growth, change, and the inevitable question of what’s next.


 

time photo of the day: its all timing.

I took this photo in one morning in early 2009 on Randall St in Monrovia. I didn’t think much of it until sometime in late 2011, when it became one of my favorites. There’s something to be said about the passage of time, but I’m not quite sure what it is.

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