the external gaze
Posted: June 12th, 2008 | Author: kamau | Filed under: photography | 1 Comment »A sampling of images by (largely) non-Africa born photographers. They are technically/aesthetically beautiful, and despite the outsider status of the photographers, they work hard to portray authenticity and dignity in their subjects (unlike the more ubiquitous “disaster porn” taken in disaster/war areas). It would interesting to see how different the images would look if they made by an insider with the same technical skill.
Screenshot of Julien Oppenheim’s image series on African Images web site
French photographer Julien Oppenheim [via African Imagery]
Screenshot of Claudio Rasano’s web site
Swiss photographer Claudio Rasano’s essays in South Africa including powertown, shades of skin, kakamas [via Conscientious]
Screen shot: school girl, Joakim Eskilden
Dane Joakim Eskildsen’s photo essay iChickenMoon
screenshot of denis chapoullie’s web site
Denis Chapoullie – South Africa, 98-99 [via African Imagery]
“disaster porn”… an apt description!
i’d been looking for a term to describe all those gleefully graphic pics of marauding child soldiers and terrified refugees in PHOTO magazine and the like…