Established in Mali in 1994, Rencontres Africaines de la Photographie or Bamako Encounters is the first international festival of its kind devoted to photography from the African continent. Founded by Mali’s Ministry of Culture together with the Institut Francais the festival is dedicated to the elevation of African photographers. The event that takes place across…
Gemma Shepherd describes herself as a twenty something year old photographer and creative from Cape Town. She is a graduate from UCT with a keen focus on fashion that takes on a narrative form on her blog, The Urban Gem. At present, she is learning how to express herself through a variety of art forms….
Ronan McKenzie is a young photographer based in London. Her time at university lasted only a few weeks after which she fell into styling and reached her end destination with an eye glued to her camera viewfinder. The young enigmatic image maker has engraved her name on the slab of a cut-throat industry earing her…
Ruth Ginika Ossai grew up in Eastern Nigeria and is currently based in West Yorkshire. She takes on the identity of a photographer and an Igbo/Yorkshire warrior, assuming this identity as a part of her dual heritage. Examining Ruth’s work, one can see the warrior in her coming to the foreground. In her practice, she…
Former ballet dancer Camila Falquez was drawn to the creation of photographic narratives as its nature can sometimes be seen as a sort of interpretive dance. A frozen image of the movement of the human body within a photographic frame evokes an enveloping emotion, drawing its viewer to closer inspection and attachment. Experiencing her limitations…
Adrienne Raquel is a photographer and art director based in New York. Drawing her inspiration from Summer, femininity and tropical motifs, her work evokes playfulness, vibrancy, and nostalgia. With the use of distinct colour and composition, Adrienne’s striking imagery has led to many large-scale brand collaborations. She has been deemed an influencer and one of…
Namsa Leuba was born in Switzerland in 1982 and studied photography at the university of Art and Design Lausanne where she also obtained a Masters in Art Direction. Her diverse photographic practice takes a look at how African identity is represented through the Western imagination. Her work comes together as a culmination of fashion photography,…
Sophia Nahli Allison is an experimental documentary filmmaker and media arts educator. History is highly contested, both as an academic subject and as an archive of living memories. Michel-Rolph Trouillot in his 1995 book Silencing the Past: Power and the Production of History, he points out that history is constructed through power relations that allow…
Rochelle Brock is a young photographer of colour from Brooklyn, New York. With her brand Fat Leopard Photography she has been revolutionizing the concept of the ideal body type. Her work challenges conventional beauty standards in America featuring beautiful curvy women of colour styled in the latest fashion trends. Here I will analyse Rochelle’s methodology…
Camilla Ferrari was born in 1992 and took her first photograph when she was 14 years old. Camilla did not study photography. She instead majored in Communication and Humanistic Studies at Università degli Studi in Milan, Italy. After her studies she decided to dedicate herself to capturing images and developed her skills via workshops with…
Young photographer Viola Di Sante unconsciously channels the creative energy of photographer David Uzochukwu, pop art artist David Hockney and photographer Viviane Sassen‘s use of shadows and twisted bodies with her own images. She explains that her desire to use photography as a medium came from a need to preserve moments, forcing herself to see…
With continued resistance from MPs in Ghana to the pressure to decriminalise homosexuality, and a general attitude against those who do not identify as heterosexual, Ghanaian photographer Eric Gyamfi is producing work that engages with these complications. “It’s in our everyday life that all these complex identities come together to make us who we are,”…
