Justice
Life in an African Slum
A photographer challenges typical Western portrayals of Africa, asking: "who do these photos serve?"
In a 2005 issue of Granta, Kenyan author Binyavanga Wainaina satirizes common Western depictions of Africa in a piece called "How to Write about Africa":
In the December issue of the journal City, Nazia Parvez of the Department of Geography at University College London extends Wainaina's point into the realm of photography. While most people expect the written word to collect a certain amount of bias during its journey from the brain to the hand, we tend to think of photographs as stark depictions of the truth. But whose truth, Parvez wants to know. That of the African people being photographed, or of the Westerners taking the photos?