In 2016, writer and researcher Amy Sall started teaching a course at The New School, titled ‘The African Gaze: Visual Culture of Post-Colonial Africa and the Social Imagination’. An introductory but ...

He was catapulted from a career as a studio photographer in a small African city to worldwide recognition in 1994, when his self-portraits won an award in the first photography biennial in Bamako ...

Culture; Books & the Arts; November 7, 2022; Martine Syms’s Portrait of Art School Alienation Martine Syms’s Portrait of Art School Alienation With her feature film The African Desperate, the ...

A portrait of the founder of Leeds' West Indian Carnival is the centrepiece of a new exhibition at Harewood House. The photograph of Arthur France will be the first of a person of Afro-Caribbean ...

Hinting at life’s fragility, this tagline underscored photography’s ability to capture a fleeting likeness and preserve it for posterity. Portraits in the impressive whole-plate format—measuring 8.5 × ...

A new book, Portrait and Place: Photography in Senegal, 1840 - 1960, takes an in-depth look at the development of the art form during a particularly tumultuous period in the country's history.

Kehinde Wiley, best known for his portrait of President Barack Obama, has spent years traveling Africa to paint heads of state. With the project, he wants to open a discussion about how we see power.

A Gustav Klimt portrait of an African prince that was lost after World War II is on view at TEFAF Maastricht, bearing a €15 million ($16.4 million) price tag.