I recently discovered the work of Omar Victor Diop and I had fun exploring his art via his website. I was particular struck by his ‘Studio of Vanities‘ collection of photographs. He explains it best himself: These are the fresh faces of the continent’s urban culture. They are black, arabs, caucasian, asian…it doesn’t matter. TheyContinue reading “Omar Victor Diop’s ‘Studio of Vanities’”
Category Archives: Art
African Art: Smithsonian Online Exhibition
No matter where in the world you are, the iconography associated with African art his slowing pushing its way into popular culture. From its use in Beyoncé’s groundbreaking Beyoncé visual album to the global popularity of Dashiki prints, African art and culture is steading becoming a feature of global popular culture – and its exciting! However, beingContinue reading “African Art: Smithsonian Online Exhibition”
Daily Inspiration:Aida Muluneh
I love art and I love the unusual. To say Aida Muluneh uses both of these things is to say the least. Currently exhibiting The World is 9 at David Krut Projects, Muluneh’s work is visually provocative and forces the observer to engage with it on its own terms. A beautiful experience, even if it isContinue reading “Daily Inspiration:Aida Muluneh”
Call for Applications: FT/Oppenheimer Funds Emerging Voices Awards
The FT/OppenheimerFunds Emerging Voices Awards aims to recognise extraordinary artistic talent in three categories – fiction literature, film-making and art across more than 100 emerging market nations. The Emerging Voices Awards will be open to passport holders of emerging nations in three categories: 1. Africa and the Middle East: including, but not limited to, paintings,Continue reading “Call for Applications: FT/Oppenheimer Funds Emerging Voices Awards”
Daily Inspiration: okayafrica interview with David Uzochukwu
Recently came across an interview by okayafrica with a talented 17 year old photographer, David Uzochukwu. His work is has won numerous awards and his clients include Opéra Nationale de Paris and Adobe Photoshop. Have a look at some of his work below. Read the interview here.
Daily Inspiration: Juju Girl by Blitz the Ambassador
Daily Inspiration: Not Waving, but Drowning
Nobody heard him, the dead man, But still he lay moaning: I was much further out than you thought And not waving but drowning. Poor chap, he always loved larking And now he’s dead It must have been too cold for him his heart gave way, They said. Oh, no no no, it wasContinue reading “Daily Inspiration: Not Waving, but Drowning”
Daily Inspiration
Deep in the soul, below pain, below all the distraction of life, is a silence vast and grand – an infinite ocean of calm, which nothing can disturb; nature’s own exceeding peace, which “passes understanding”. That which we seek with passionate longing, here and there, upward and outward; we find at last within ourselves. –Continue reading “Daily Inspiration”
Daily Inspiration: The Instagram Generation
“The ‘Instagram Generation’ now experiences the present as an anticipated memory” – Professor Daniel Kahneman (Psychologist and Nobel Prize winner)
Tribute: Like a Naughty Girl Pulling her skirt up in public
Few people know the person I used to be before I became who I am today. Even I have forgotten bits of who I used to be, so consumed with who I am now. Tonight, while working on my company’s website, I cam across a folder with all the images I had on an oldContinue reading “Tribute: Like a Naughty Girl Pulling her skirt up in public”
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