1-54 Fair Panel discussion: The Cinematic eye of West African photographer Paul Kodjo
Please join the panel discussion At 1:54 Contemporary African Art Fair The Cinematic eye of West African photographer Paul Kodjo: The Ivorian Miracle in the 1970’s Saturday May 4, 2019, 6:30 – 7:30pm Forum Room/1-54 at Industria, 775 Washington Street, New York City Panelists: Ananias Leki Dago (photographer and founder of Les Rencontres du […]
On a medical mission in Kenya with MEAK
A successful fundraising campaign for a very successful medical mission in Merti, Kenya It is October 2017, in Merti, Kenya, a town in the middle of a desert-like landscape where the temperatures average up to 100 degrees under a blistering and relentless sun. Dee Belliere, the founder of MEAK, has gathered a […]
“Afriques Capitales” at Parc de la Villette in Paris
My next stop was the exhibition Afriques Capitales curated by Simon Njami at the Parc de La Villette in Paris running from March 29, 2017 to May 28, 2017. The selection was very much based on Simon’s selection from last year Biennale de Dakar . For those who had not seen it it was a […]
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 […]
Kuona trust: A collective model to teaching art in Nairobi
A collective approach to teaching art in Nairobi, Kenya. After my meeting with at ARTLabAFrica with artist Beatrice Wanjiku and David Thuku, I went with David to check out Kuona Trust which I had heard so much about and where David had a studio space. Set in a green part of town the artists’ studios […]
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 […]
South African Wim Botha at The Foundation Blachere in Apt, France
Wim Botha’s fragmentary spectacle: An engrossing juxtaposition of materials. From my summer house in the Luberon in Provence, South of France it takes me barely 20 minutes to get to the Fondation Blachere in Apt, which is devoted to fostering contemporary creativity in Africa and to promoting its artists. Situated in the industrial suburb […]
African art at the Philadelphia Museum
African photography, textiles, fashion, architecture, sculpture and more in Philadelphia Between the rehearsal dinner and the wedding of the son of a dear friend of mine whom I have known since he was a baby I drove into Philly just a short hour away from West Chester where we were staying . My friend who […]
Malick Sidibe. A documentary
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