We at The Polis Project are conducting our first ‘Decolonise Photography’ workshop in New York, from 19th to 23rd November, 2019. You can learn more about them by going to the link shown above, or here. The workshops are open to all. And they are completely free. Over the course of five intensive days of […]
Category Archives: Decolonisation
A Man In The Sun
This is an essay without reason. It emerges as a result of recent discussions with a friend and colleague about decolonialisation–what it means, how does it apply to various areas of human knowledge, and what can it mean for photography. Actually, this essay without reason emerges as a result of discussions at The Polis Project […]
Rethinking Africa Or How Not To Talk About Your Africa Photo Project
The American photographer Pete Muller’s is working on a long-term project called Rethinking The Enemy: Men, Masculinity And Violence, that he claims attempts to: …understand the causes of male-perpetrated violence,” He explains that he is: …working around the hypothesis that when men are not able to achieve what are often rigid standards of what makes successful manhood, […]