Georges Senga News Today

The exhibition at Kunsthalle Mainz unfolds along three thematic skeins that are directly related to Sammy Baloji’s works of recent years as well as his current research.

he Journey: New Positions in African Photography profiles 17 photographers who passed through the Photographers’ Masterclass, a decade-long professional mentorship founded by Simon Njami in conjunction with the Goethe-Institut in 2008. Diverse in style, format and outlook, the work of these photographers from the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ethiopia, Ghana, Côte d’Ivoire, Kenya, Mozambique, Nigeria, South Africa and Sudan encapsulates some — not all — of the ambitions, enthusiasm...