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 …

The full title of this exhibition is Updates – Six Investigations into the Use of Photographs in Ugandan News Media. It is related to part of the content of Ebishushani #3, All the Tricks, Elly Rwakoma. The heart of this book shows photographs made by Rwakoma on the occasion of a political rally that …

De eerste vier jaar van het lectoraat Image in Context van het Kenniscentrum Kunst en Samenleving – onderdeel van de Hanzehogeschool Groningen – wordt gemarkeerd met de tentoonstelling We, people in transition. De tentoonstelling toont een selectie van de projecten die het lectoraat, onder leiding van …

Parallele portretten. Wat is een portret? En welke positie hebben ouderen in onze samenleving? Deze vragen vormden het vertrekpunt voor een interculturele dialoog tussen studenten en docenten van Academie Minerva en Uganda Christian University. Het idee van het portret is via verschillende media onderzocht, …

Andrea Stultiens exhibits her work at PhotoforumPasquArt together with photographer Flurina Rotherberger.

The sixth book in the Ebifananyi series is based on the photo collections of St. Mary’s College Kisubi, and the archive of the Brothers of Christian Instruction, who ran the school, that was founded by the White Fathers in 1906 in 1926. The title of the book Duc in Altum The book tries to invoke thoughts …

The launch of the sixth book in the Ebifananyi series took place at literary festival Writivism 2016, that was themed ‘Restoring Connections’. The book is based on negatives that are part of the collection of the Brothers of Christian Instruction in Kisubi, the ‘Facebooks’ of classes of boys available …

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.

The fifth book in the Ebifananyi series is based on the memoirs and slide collection of Engineer Martin Wangutusi Wambwa (b. 1928). He is one of the first western trained Ugandan engineers. Journalism and photography would have been his second vocational choice, had his engineering ambitions not worked …

A short article reflecting on working with archives as an artist in a post-colonial setting.