A short article reflecting on working with archives as an artist in a post-colonial setting.

Laten Zien   Laten zien toont de visuele output van een ontmoeting tussen studenten van Academie Minerva, studenten Sociale Geografie van de Rijksuniversiteit Groningen en jongeren met niet aangeboren hersenletsel (cliënten van De Noorderbrug). In teams werd fotografisch beeld ingezet om elkaars leefwereld …

About "Men on the line', a 1972 performance.

April 2015 Sudanese photographer Elsadig Mohamed and I tried to relate the photographs that Paul Julien made when traveling through the country in 1933 and 1948 to stories and realities alive in present day Sudan. This initial research was pretty successful and we thought a first presentation of the …

Het lectoraat Image in Context van het Kenniscentrum Kunst en Samenleving heeft enkele jaren geleden een expertisecentrum opgezet om licht te werpen op de wijzen waarop fotografie (lens based images) wordt ingezet als vorm van artistiek onderzoek dat helpt ons te situeren in de wereld. Dit expertisecentrum …

Ebifananyi 4, based on the Ham Mukasa Foundation Archive that HIPUganda digitised, has had several exhibition versions. This one puts a strong emphasis on the works produced by Ugandan artists and Dutch and Ugandan art students for the project. In this other exhibition creating an opportunity to explore …

Keep the Best of Your Life (for the Rest of Your Life) is part Making Oneself ‘a twofold exhibition of both historical investigations and contemporary showcases of photo studio practises in South and Southeast Asia and Uganda.’ ‘Making Oneself’ was one exhibitions of the Noorderlicht Photo festival 2015. …

Simuda Nyuma is the title of a trilogy written during the 1930s by Ham Mukasa (1870-1956), who was an important chief of Baganda - a kingdom in south-central Uganda. Being highly educated and one of the first literate in the region, Mukasa wrote about the lives of three kings that ruled Buganda from …

Ebifananyi 4, based on the Ham Mukasa Foundation Archive that HIPUganda digitised, has had several exhibition versions. This one is part of Global Imaginations, an exhibition organised by Museum de Lakenhal in Leiden in an old factory. In this installation the visitor had the opportunity to dive into …

The third book of the Ebifananyi series, Ebishushani III – All the Tricks, delves into the life of Elly Rwakoma who ran photostudio studio and was a presidential photographer as well as a social worker and a businessman. Ebishushani III takes of from one particular image that, due to various circumstances, …