A new exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in New York, “Ideas of Africa: Portraiture and Political Imagination”, features photographic portraits by African artists and captures the spirit of decolonisation that swept across the continent in the 1960s and '70s alongside the US Civil Rights movement.
Issued on: 18/01/2026 - 11:57
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Also featuring works by contemporary photographers, the exhibit invites viewers to reflect on photography not only as an image, but as a creative and political process – and on how we respond to it today.
It's "an exhibition that embraces African forms of self-representation during a moment when the African continent is coming into itself", says Oluremi Onabanjo, MoMA's Peter Schub Curator of Photography.
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