dc.contributor.author
Hacker, Kerstin
dc.date.accessioned
2022-06-17T11:53:59Z
dc.date.available
2022-06-17T11:53:59Z
dc.identifier.uri
https://refubium.fu-berlin.de/handle/fub188/35308
dc.identifier.uri
http://dx.doi.org/10.17169/refubium-35024
dc.description.abstract
In 1986 Kenyan writer Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o argued that ‘[t]he choice of language and the use to which language is put is central to a people’s definition of themselves’ (Ngũgĩ 1986:4). This article re-applies Ngũgĩ’s analysis to contemporary African photographic practice, since images are similarly central to people’s self-definition. Collaborating with the Zambian National Visual Arts Council, the practice-research project Stories of Kalingalinga developed a photographic workshop (2019) and exhibition (2020) to counteract Zambia’s lack of institutional engagement with photography. Focused on Kalingalinga, a high-density neighbourhood undergoing gentrification in Zambia’s capital Lusaka, the workshop provided space to experiment in decolonising creative practice through slow action research. As a photographer, animateur and curator from the global north, I present work by Zambian project participants Scotty Jongolo, Danny Chiyesu, Zenzele Chulu, Edith Chiliboy, Natalia Gonzalez Acosta, Margaret Malawo Mumba, Dennis Mubanga Kabwe, David Daut Makala, Muchemwa Sichone and Yande Yombwe. The article discusses the decolonisation of Zambian photography and the workshop’s deepening of my own decolonial photographic practice. I highlight the importance of empowering Zambian photographers through encouraging critically informed image-making in contemporary African photographic practice. African visual self-governance requires building supportive communities that embrace alternative and creative ways of knowledge creation.
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dc.format.extent
25 Seiten
dc.rights.uri
https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
dc.subject
Collaborative practice
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dc.subject
African photography
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dc.subject
decolonisation
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dc.subject
Zambian National Visual Arts Council
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dc.subject
practice research
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dc.subject.ddc
300 Sozialwissenschaften::300 Sozialwissenschaften, Soziologie::301 Soziologie, Anthropologie
dc.subject.ddc
700 Künste und Unterhaltung::700 Künste::702 Verschiedenes zur bildenden und angewandten Kunst
dc.title
Us in Relation to the Universe—Collaborative North-South Photographic Practice Research
dc.type
Wissenschaftlicher Artikel
dcterms.bibliographicCitation.doi
10.1080/17514517.2022.2035984
dcterms.bibliographicCitation.journaltitle
Photography and Culture
dcterms.bibliographicCitation.number
1
dcterms.bibliographicCitation.pagestart
33
dcterms.bibliographicCitation.pageend
57
dcterms.bibliographicCitation.volume
15
dcterms.bibliographicCitation.url
https://doi.org/10.1080/17514517.2022.2035984
refubium.affiliation
Politik- und Sozialwissenschaften
refubium.affiliation.other
SFB 1171: Affective Societies: Dynamiken des Zusammenlebens in bewegten Welten
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refubium.affiliation.other
Affect and Colonialism Web Lab
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no
dcterms.accessRights.openaire
open access
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1751-4525
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WoS-Alert