FotoFest

African Cosmologies: 
Photography, Time, and Other

Publication date: March 2020

Photobooks

The central programme of Houston's FotoFest Biennial 2020 exhibition African Cosmologies: Photography, Time, and Other focuses on artists of African origin. Curated by renowned London-based curator, Mark Sealy MBE, this lavish tome brings together 33 artists of African origins from around the globe whose works challenge traditional notions of Blackness and transnational histories in relation to concepts of liberty, rights, and representation.

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Organization’s website



About the book:

FotoFest
ISBN ‎9789053309322
Edited by Mark Sealy, Steven Evans, and Max Fields
Essays by Christine Eyene, Henry Louis Gates, Jr., Azu Nwagbogu, Olu Oguibe, and Mark Sealy
Foreword by Steven Evans
Design by Henk van Assen, HvA Design, Brooklyn
Published by Schilt Publishing & Gallery
Hardback, 17.5 x 24.2 cm, 296 pages

Press:

The Guardian
The Guardian – The best books of 2020: Maaza Mengiste
The British Journal of Photography
LFI magazine (May-June 2020)
LFI blog
Frieze
Ocula magazine
GUP magazine
L’Oeil de la photographie
Morning Star newspaper (April 25-26, 2020)
PhotoNews, May-June 2020 (in German)
Sugarcane Magazine
The Burlington Magazine
Concept Aware Podcast with Sybylla J Smith (November 13th, 2020)
Best Photography Books of 2020, by Elizabeth Avedon
ZAM magazine


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