Image courtesy of Women Photograph Women Photograph has announced their project grants for 2023. They have partnered with Nikon USA, MFB and the Leica Grant USA to support women & non-binary photographers. Applications open on April 15, 2023 and will close on May 15, 2023. Women Photograph is…
Visual artists from Mauritania, officially the Islamic Republic of Mauritania, have had some impact in the state of the arts in Africa and abroad. Below are some of the artists to look out for from Mauritania and the work they have done in Africa and the diaspora. Oumar…
There are galleries in the diaspora invested in the promotion of art from African artists. Through programming, acquisitions, and exhibitions, a growing number of art institutions are addressing historical gaps and erasures in the representation of Africa and its diasporas. Here is a list of galleries and museums…
The World Press Contest began in 1955 as an international competition organized by Dutch photographers to provide a global audience to international artists. Over the years, it has evolved into a platform that directs and guides visual journalists, storytellers, and global audiences to create meaningful stories through various…
Nicène Kossentini is a photographer and filmmaker who was born in Tunis, Tunisia in 1976. She studied at the Sorbonne University in Paris, France. During the first edition of the International Digital Media in France, she was interned at the Studio National des Arts Contemporains Le Fresnoy and…
Zakaria Ramhani was born in Tangiers, Morocco in 1983. He currently lives and works in Montreal, Canada. Ramhani was raised in a Muslim community and in a creative home; his father was a landscape painter who shied away from portraying the human figure for religious concerns. Whenever he was commissioned for a…
Nadia Kaabi-Linke was born in Tunis, Tunisia in 1978. An installation artist best known for her conceptual art, her work has explored themes of geopolitics, immigration, and transnational identities. She studied at the Tunis Institute of Fine Arts and received a Ph.D. in philosophy of art from the Sorbonne in Paris, France. Using a variety of…
Hadia Gana was born in Tripoli, Libya in 1973. She studied ceramics and glass making at the School of Fine Arts and Media at the University of Tripoli. She then pursued a Master’s in Ceramics at the University of Wales, Cardiff in 2005. Gana identifies as a ceramist…
Aimen Ajhani, aka Elbohly, was born in Misrata, Libya in 1989. He is a self-taught graffiti artist who started off as an underground artist in Tripoli, Libya where he first began spraying protestor images. The images were related to and inspired by the February 2011 Revolution in Libya…