Subterranea
For Subterranea, Ayabukwa Magocoba went underground. The project, which she conceived, directed, styled and modelled, was shot in the limestone chambers of the Sterkfontein Caves outside Johannesburg, the UNESCO-listed site where the human record is held as both archive and origin. It is fitting ground. Magocoba is less interested in placing a body in a […]
Bairro 6 de Maio
On a cold morning on the outskirts of Amadora, northwest of Lisbon, the ground gives way to rubble. Women roast corn on improvised grills, and residents sit in their doorways with morna playing low, the slow Cape Verdean music the islands call the sound of the soul. A handful of houses still stand among the […]
Generational Love
Generational Love sets two couples in Michel Odouffan’s childhood living room and asks them to do the one thing we have trained ourselves out of: to be obvious about wanting each other. Against wax-print backdrops and a familiar red sofa, the newer couple lets the wanting spill over — a hand, a kiss, a head […]
The Labour of Rivers.
The Labour of Rivers is an ongoing series about the fishermen who work the Andoni River in Rivers State, Nigeria. For the men photographed here, the river is both workplace and inheritance — a rhythm of mornings out on the water, long hours of patience, and the slow return to shore. The series moves through […]
La Vie Est Belle
Makhan Sakho is twenty-six, Guinean and Malian and Congolese by heritage, Parisian by address. He has worked as a model, stylist, producer, and creative director, but the camera is where his vision sits most fully. “I like when the photos speak for themselves,” he says. “The compositions, the colors, the textures — they allow us […]
Nine
Bruin Feskens is a self-taught photographer working out of Cape Town. His mother, a photographer herself, started him on commercial sets at fifteen, and the family’s move from the Netherlands to South Africa opened up the landscapes — beaches, greenlands, deserts — that would later anchor his frames. The series Nine began with a cover […]
Dakar Sound Project
Dakar Sound Project is a photo series by photographer Khaled Fhemy Mamah and stylist Hélène Redolfi — a Dakaroise stroll that pays tribute to African music, past and present, and the influences that still resonate in the city’s streets. The series is a dialogue between music and clothing: costume as scene, the wardrobe as show. […]
Sanjo Lawal: Artsman the Traveler
Sanjo Lawal works between photography, creative editing, and digital painting. He renders skin in near-charcoal tones so the colors around it can sing harder. Born in Lagos in 1997 and raised in Ijebu Ode, he draws on Yoruba ceremony, the Ojude Oba festival, and the layered textiles of his mother’s wardrobe. His Artsman the Traveler […]
Cultural Alphabet
Cultural Alphabet is creative director Dani Larbi’s own life mapped onto twenty-six letters. Each one stands in for a piece of Afro-European experience — the inheritance of being among the first generation born in Europe to African parents. Coexistence, contrast, and fusion become words; words become images; images become collectible cards. Larbi treats the project […]