A reflection on the impact of Paul Julien's photographs in the form of a letter to him, part of the larger investigation into his legacy.

In Luganda, the widest spoken minority language in East African country Uganda, the word for photographs is Ebifananyi. However, ebifananyi does not, contrary to the etymology of the word photographs, relate to light writings. Ebifananyi instead means things that look like something else. Ebifananyi …

For the past decade I have, as an artist/researcher, investigated the uses of photographic pictures in East African country Uganda. The relation between photographic pictures and memory have been well researched and argued. But this is often done from a rather one sided Eurocentric perspective on photographic …

A presentation that provides insights into a visual mode of narrative research connected to my PhD research

This seminar is organized by the European Centre for Documentary Research (eCDR), as a complementary activity to expand the research work developed by its members and to generate links and collaborations with artists, theorists and other researchers.The present session focuses on contemporary documentary …

Exhibition of Work In Progress outcomes of elective course 'Mythbusters, Unfixing Histories, World Press Photo'. The course is part of the project Unfixing Histories, which is related to my PhD research, but takes the gesture of investigating histories in and with photographs as part of artistic practices …

Contribution to the panel "Handling/Manipulating Photographs in Africa: New Perspectives in Photography History, I of II" convened by Erika Nimis and Marian Nur Goni, titled 'Beyond the Photograph; Ekifananyi Kya Muteesa'

This paper presents (part of) an illustrated letter to Musa Katuramu (Uganda, *1916 / †1983), whose photographs I appropriated and present in a book. Appropriation is an important but problematic gesture. Through it I try to do justice to the social biographies of images I work with, and to make them …

Asiko is an educational art programme initiated by Bisi Silva, curator and director of the Centre for Contemporary Art in Lagos, Nigeria. After being one of the main faculty member of Asiko Accra (Ghana) in 2013, this was a return visit.