Stanley Wolukau-Wanambwa

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Stanley Wolukau-Wanambwa (born 1980) [1] is a Ugandan-born [2] British photographer, writer, and educator, living in the USA. [3] His series One Wall a Web has been shown in a solo exhibition at Light Work in New York and the book of the work won the Paris Photo-Aperture Foundation PhotoBook Award's First PhotoBook Award. [4] [5]

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Life and work

Wolukau-Wanambwa was born in Uganda [2] and grew up in the UK. [3] He obtained a BA in Philosophy and French from the University of Oxford, UK and an MFA in Photography from Virginia Commonwealth University. [6]

He has lived in the USA since 2012 [3] and as of 2021 was living in Rhode Island. [7] He has lectured at Yale University, Cornell University, New York University, The New School, [8] and State University of New York at Purchase; [3] and been director of the photography MFA at Rhode Island School of Design. [9]

The book One Wall a Web (2018) includes two photographic series made by Wolukau-Wanambwa in the USA—Our Present Invention (2012–2014) and All My Gone Life (2014–2017)—as well as an extensive essay and appropriated archival images. [3] [10] It "draws together poetry, critical writing, and photography to reflect on the ways that race, gender, and violence are woven into the fabric of (white) Western modernity. Set in America – with its history of injustice and its troubled present – One Wall a Web asks how documentary photography both participates in this complex play of forces, and suggests ways that we might find alternative pathways through it." [11]

Publications

Books by Wolukau-Wanambwa

Books with contributions by Wolukau-Wanambwa

Awards

Exhibitions

Solo exhibitions

Group exhibitions

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