Paul Kodjo’s photographs at 1-54 Contempoarry African Art fair in New York, 3-5 May,2019
Collector’s choice: Abidjan in the 1970’s, Paul Kodjo photographs the Ivorian Miracle. Photography exhibition at 1-54 Contemporary African Art Fair/ in New York, 3-5 May 2019. May 2: VIP viewing with two private tours, 11-12pm and 3-4pm. Saturday May 4: Panel Discussion 6:30 – 7:30 pm Special Project Booth 26 / Industria, 775 Washington […]
I am donating my 60th birthday to raising money for an eye mission in Kenya
DISCOVER THROUGH MY PHOTOGRAPHS LIFE IN REMOTE PARTS OF KENYA HELP ME MAKE MEAK EYE MISSION IN KENYA CHANGE AS MANY LIVES AS POSSIBLE. My 60th birthday is coming up on September 9th , two months from now and I have chosen to challenge myself. On October 1, 2017 I will join the MEAK […]
Best Wishes for A Happy New Year
I WISH YOU ALL A PEACEFUL, PRODUCTIVE, AND JOYFUL NEW YEAR ! Here are a few photographs from my walk in the Ndotos in Norther Kenya that made me wonder in front of nature. My attention during the end of the year 2016 has been focused on the election and post election circus in […]
Samuel Fosso’s photographs enter the MOMA’s collection
Great news! Congolese Artist Samuel Fosso’s photographic series ” African Spirits” has been added to MOMA’s permanent collection after a unanimous vote by the MOMA’s acquisition committee. This process has taken two years at least!! It is fantastic and important series. Read more about it on my blog post of April 2013
Upcoming art events featuring African art in New York, London, Paris
OCTOBER UPDATE A lot is happening on the Africa front. I went to Kenya for a couple of weeks this summer and spend a few days in Nairobi interviewing a few key players and artists in an emerging East African art scene that is gaining momentum. I will report on this in my November Newsletter. […]
South African artist Zanele Muholi at Les Rencontres de la Photographie at Arles
I love that even though I now spend my summers in Provence in an adorable house in the foothills of the Luberon I don’t have far to go to see good African art. The Photography Festival at Arles – Les Rencontres Internationales de la Photographie d’Arles – is an hour away and this year South […]
Mame-Diarra Niang, Edson Chagas, Francois-Xavier Gbre: The African cityscape the works of
The Lay of the Land at the Walther Collection in Chelsea, New York. I was looking forward to this exhibition since my conversation with Mame –Diarra Niang in Arles about her recent body of photographic works Metropolis. I had first met her the previous year in Joburg at a cocktail party on the occasion of […]
INCORRUPTIBLE: A Documentary on the 2012 election in Senegal
The promise of African Youth: Y’en a Marre holds the government accountable by getting thousands of young people to register to vote. Produced by Edward Tyler Nahem and directed and co-produced by Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi, the film INCORRUPTIBLE documents the controversial presidential elections held in Senegal in 2012. Senegal was pitched into crisis when then sitting […]
1:54 Contemporary African Art Fair in New York City
Contemporary African art at your door step: NOT TO BE MISSED: Come and see the galleries showing contemporary African art at 1:54 at Pioneers Works in Red Hook in Brooklyn from May 14 to May 17. The 1:54 team has put together a wonderful series of studio and museum visits and talks that are going to […]
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