Addis Foto Fest is a photography festival held biennially in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. [1] It takes place over a week in December. [2]
The festival was founded in 2010 [3] by Aida Muluneh [4] [5] [6] [7] [8] [9] and continues to be organised by the company she established, DESTA for Africa Creative Consulting. [10]
In 2010, there were four participating photographers, [11] in 2014, there were 95, [12] and in 2016, there were 126. [2]
African Photography Encounters is a biennial exhibition in Bamako, Mali, held since 1994. The exhibition, featuring exhibits by contemporary African photographers, is spread over several Bamako cultural centers, including the National Museum, the National Library, the Modibo Keïta memorial, and the District Museum. The exhibition also features colloquia and film showings. The most recent biennial took place in 2017.
Aïda Muluneh is an Ethiopian photographer and contemporary artist based in Addis Ababa. She does commercial work as well as photojournalism in Addis Ababa and elsewhere.
LagosPhoto Festival is the first international art festival of photography in Nigeria, launched in October 2010. It is organised by the African Artists’ Foundation (AAF) as part of an ongoing project designed to use art in public spaces, as a medium for increasing societal awareness. The festival includes workshops and classes for professional artists, art fairs and indoor and outdoor exhibitions citywide. LagosPhoto is held annually and features emerging photographers alongside established photographers.
Michael Tsegaye is an Ethiopian artist and photographer. Much of his work presents a glimpse of life in contemporary Ethiopia, although an extended catalogue of his images come from his travels abroad.
Vadim Gushchin is a Russian art-photographer.
Dina Goldstein is a visual artist based in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. She is a photographer and pop surrealist with a background in documentary photography. Goldstein creates tableau with a nuanced visual language that places the mundane and everyday in unusual settings to inspire insight into the human condition. She is most known for her series "Fallen Princesses", created in 2007, which depicts humanized Disney Princesses placed in realistic, modern scenarios. The series envisions how the lives of these famous characters would have played out in the real world, and touches on such everyday scourges as poverty, obesity, cancer and pollution. Goldstein was awarded the Arte Laguna special prize in 2012. In 2014, Goldstein won the grand prize at Prix Virginia; her work was exhibited in Paris, France.
Dudley M. Brooks is the co-creator of Songs of My People African Americans: A Self-Portrait, a historic photo documentary of the world of African Americans, and he is currently the deputy director of photography for The Washington Post and photo editor for The Washington Post Magazine.
Wendy Watriss is an American photographer, curator, journalist, and writer.
Austin Irving is an American contemporary artist and photographer.
Sohrab Hura is an Indian photographer based in New Delhi. He is a full member of Magnum Photos.
Nadia Huggins was born in 1984 in Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago. She now resides in Saint Vincent and the Grenadines. Nadia Huggins is a self-taught photographer and graphic designer who has worked extensively throughout the Caribbean. She was awarded the Festival Caribbeen de L'image du Mémorial Acte Jury Prize in Guadeloupe in 2015.
Adama Delphine Fawundu is a Sierra Leonean-American multi-disciplinary photographer and visual artist promoting African culture and heritage, a co-founder and author of MFON: Women Photographers of the African Diaspora – a journal and book representing female photographers of African descent. Her works have been presented in numerous exhibitions worldwide. She uses multiple mediums to create works with themes about identity, utopia, decolonization, and stories of the past, present and future. She is a Professor of Visual Arts at Columbia University.
Delphine Diallo or Delphine Diaw Diallo is a French-Senegalese photographer. She was originally based in Saint-Louis, Senegal, but now works in New York City.
Fatoumata Diabaté is a Malian photographer from Bamako.
Eyerusalem Jiregna is an Ethiopian photographer. She is based in Addis Ababa and focuses on women doing non traditionally female jobs. She is known for her photos of the local women of Harar.
Jamey Stillings is an American photographer and artist known primarily for his aerial photography of renewable energy projects around the world, documenting the human impact on the environment .Stillings presents at photo festivals, universities and professional conferences globally. His work is exhibited and published widely in Asia, Australia, Europe and North and South America. His award-winning book, The Evolution of Ivanpah Solar, documents the Ivanpah Solar Electric Generating System in the Mojave Desert of California. His photographs are in private and public collections, including the United States Library of Congress, Museum of Fine Arts - Houston, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, and Nevada Museum of Art.
Ala Kheir is a Sudanese photographer, cinematographer and mechanical engineer. He became known as one of the founders of the Sudanese Photographers Group in Khartoum in 2009 and through international exhibitions of his photographs, as well as for networking and training for photographers in Africa.
Salih Basheer is a Sudanese Documentary photographer. During his studies of Geography at Cairo University, Egypt, he started as a self-taught photographer and subsequently studied Photojournalism at the Danish School of Media and Journalism in Aarhus, Denmark.
Frederick C. Baldwin was an American photographer. He was the cofounder of FotoFest, a major photography festival in Houston, Texas. He was the husband of Wendy Watriss.
Aaron Schuman is an American photographer, writer, curator and educator based in the United Kingdom. His books of photography include Folk (2016), Slant (2019) and Sonata (2022).