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Faces of Africa – Photo Essay

Smiles, sorrow, pain, laughter, love – Africa is a rainbow of feelings. Children playing, children suffering, women vailed, happy women, the medicine man, the tribe, the friends, scars, costumes, strange customs – is all in there, from South Africa to Mali, Ethiopia, Tanzania, Senegal or Ghana, discovered differently by each photographer. These are the faces of Africa, [...]

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Seydou Keita – African Life in Black&White Photography

I first saw Seydou Keita’s work in a TV documentary, and I was really impressed by the fact that you can imagine so much about the colourful social life in Bamako, Mali from some simple black&white portrait photography. Not pretentious, though formally posed, Keita’s portraits show people dressed in both westerner and traditional clothes, riding [...]

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