Encountering Otherness. Depth of Field: A collective approach to Africa
Journal Title: index.comunicación - Year 2013, Vol 3, Issue 2
Abstract
The purpose of this article is to approach postcolonial African photography through the pictures of the Nigerian group DOF (Depth of Field), in terms of what has been called Trans-African Photography; a photography that brings down the borders of the African continent and denies the identitary aspects of “the African” as a Western construction. The pictures of this new generation keep no relation with such characteristics as the naïve, the primitive or the brute, all of them related to “the African” from the point of view of the West. On the contrary, they insert themselves into the global dialogue of the Postmodern Art. And by doing so, they break away from the omnipresent ethnocentrism in the arts. It is important to raise this topic in the academia in order to create legitimization for these artistic practices that question not only the art circle and its system but also the social construction of an imagery that is currently widespread in the Western Countries. The training of these photographers has taken place mostly in Europe. Therefore talking about the migratory flux of the art and its meanings becomes necessary as well. The pictures of DOF, rather than represent the Other, raise controversy about the pertinence of Africa being part of a globalised world distributes their artworks and, at the same time, relocates them away from their territory. This has caused a great split not only in the western imagery but also in more traditional-style African photographers such as J.D. ‘Okhai Ojeikere, Tam Fiofori, Jide Adeniyi-Jones y Sunmi Smart-Cole.
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Rosario Jiménez
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