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For the first time, the Museum of Modern Art showcases current West African photographers. The exhibit depicts the colonial past, beautiful beaches and boisterous protests of the Nigerian city.
IT IS NOT UNUSUAL to be moved by the ocean, stirred by frothy swells of salt water rolling onto the sand and withdrawing in perpetuity. Still, I did not expect to tear up looking at a photograph of the ocean on the second floor of New York’s Museum of Modern Art on a rainy Wednesday afternoon. Made with a medium-format camera and exhibited as an unframed, black-and-white inkjet print tacked down with paperclips, the image belongs to “Sea Never Dry,” an ongoing project begun by master photographer Akinbode Akinbiyi in 1982. The series is a sweeping record of “Bar Beach,” an iconic str...