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MFON: Women Photographers of the African Diaspora
Marina Dias Teixeira / Barbara Mastrobuono
19 Nov 2020, 5:44 pm
“MFON: Women Photographers of the African Diaspora” is a seminal publication independently published by MFON, founded by documentary filmmaker Laylah Amatullah Barrayn and visual artist Adama Delphine Fawundu, and edited by Crystal Whaley. The anthology contains works from different genres created by more than 100 African and Diaspora artists, representing a total of 27 nations.
With the intention of promoting, on an international scale, the voice of photographers of African descent, MFON creates an intellectual dialogue bringing journalists, curators, documentarians and artists to discuss contemporary photography production. Their first publication, “Women Photographers of the African Diaspora”, is already sold out. Here, we publish twelve images that make up this anthology, to bring the Brazilian public closer to this very important content.
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Above: Ming Smith
"Coney Island" (detail), New York, 1972
All images used in this story are courtesy of MFON
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(1) Nydia Blas, from the series “The Girl Who Spun Gold”, New York, 2016; (2) Fati Abubakar, from the ongoing series “Bits of Borno”, Nigeria, 2015
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(3) Fatoumata Diabaté, from the series “Caméleon”, Senegal, 2015-2016; (4) Eman Helal “Juba the New Nation”, Southern Sudan, 2104; (5) Nina Robinson “Five men sit listening to their family and friends sing in the 12th Direct Mass Choir” USA, 2015
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(6) Eman-Helal “Morsy, the beginning and the end”, 2011; (7) Fanta Diop “Following a West African Tradition, Malian women give money to an expectant mother at her baby shower”, New York, 2017
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(8) Yodith Dammlash “Brothers”, Ethiopia, 2014; (9) Émilie Régnier “Danielle Babou”, Abidjan, 2014; (10) Angéle Etoundi Essamba “Palanqueras”, Colombia, 2010; (11) Samantha Box, from the series “Invisible: The Shelter, the Street”, New York, 2006
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