Tag Archives: Simon Njami

After Eden features works by Ai Weiwei, Dieter Appelt, Nobuyoshi Araki, Richard Avedon, Oladélé Ajiboyé Bamgboyé…

Mastering this split image is the role which photographers of African origin have assigned themselves, sometimes against their better judgement, in order to avoid misunderstandings.

Producing images is probably the last way in which we can fully express our freedom and individuality in this century. Up until the end of the twentieth century, the West held a monopoly on seeing, i.e. the power of describing and therefore defining the world from a hegemonic point of view…