6 | 2023
Photos & Photographers
What do photographers and their pictures show about Africa? This special issue aims to analyse the social representations produced and disseminated by photographers, whether professionals or amateurs, researchers or not, African or not. The articles present numerous photographs, reflecting the longstanding nature of this practice as well as its contemporary vitality. The authors consider what is shown, what can be shown, but also the images that are not there or are no longer there. Examining the absence of images invites us to grasp the entire photographic process, from shooting to distribution. The aim is to unravel not only the photographs themselves, but also the various interactions that led to their production, reproduction or disappearance. In this way, the articles sketch out the area of the photographable in Africa.
Finally, this issue takes a reflexive look at research approaches that use photography as a “medium for expressing the sensitive,” understanding “sensitive” to mean both what is mediated by our senses (as in a “sensory” approach for example) but also sensitive as that which requires a particular care and tact, that which is affectively charged. At the intersection of working “with,” “on” and “in” images, the aim is to defend photography as a research method in its own right.
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Production et circulation des représentations visuelles dans les mondes sociaux africainsPhotography, a Sensitive (Re)Source for Social Sciences [Full text | translation | en]The Production and Circulation of Visual Representations in African Social Worlds
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Photography as Absence: Implicit Histories (Africa, Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries) [Full text | translation | en]
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An Amateur Photographer’s View of Moroccan Society, the 1912-1934 Désiré Sic CollectionContrabandista de imagens: olhares de um fotógrafo amador sobre a sociedade marroquina, a colecção de Désiré Sic, 1912-1934
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Saisir l’imperceptible : photographie d’art et ethnologie en perspective à Ségou au Mali [Full text]Jata seko ni dɔnko ani maayakalan Segu kɔnɔ Mali laCapturing the imperceptible: art photography and ethnology in perspective at Ségou in MaliCaptar o imperceptível : fotografia artística e etnologia em perspectiva em Segou no Mali
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‘That Could Have Been a Nice Photo!’ Notes on the Challenges of Photography for a Multidisciplinary Research Project in Burundi‘Isto poderia dar uma boa foto!’ Reflexões sobre dissabores de uma prática fotográfica numa investigação pluridisciplinar no Burundi
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What Is Shown of Work: Capturing by Photography the Social Relations in Ethiopian EnterprisesO que se mostra do trabalho: captar pela fotografia as relações sociais nas empresas etíopes
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