Ideas of Africa: Portraiture and Political Imagination

The exhibition examines how photographers and their sitters contributed to the proliferation of Pan-African solidarity during the mid-20th century. The exhibition considers the transatlantic call and response that constructed Africa as a political idea, due to the 'winds of decolonial change' that swept the African continent in tandem with the Civil Rights movement in the United States. The exhibit invites viewers to reflect on photography not only as an image, but as a creative and political process.