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The New African Photography: Emeka Okereke
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The New African Photography: Emeka Okereke

2013 · EN · STATUS: [ STREAMING ]

Photographer Emeka Okereke leads a busload of artists and photographers across the African continent as part of the Invisible Borders road trip project, a yearly journey meant to challenge how Africa gets photographed by outsiders and by Africans themselves. The film follows the group as they cross borders, set up impromptu shoots in towns along the route, and argue about what an authentically African image should look like when so much of the continent's visual history was shaped by colonial and Western cameras. Okereke, who founded the project, appears throughout directing the group and reflecting on why physical movement across the continent matters as much as the photographs themselves. Conversations among the traveling artists cover collaboration, national identity, and the practical friction of moving a busload of equipment and people through multiple checkpoints. The result is less a portrait of finished artworks than a record of the process, showing how a shared road trip becomes a method for rethinking African photography from the inside.