Tender Photo, Projected

An exhibition featuring photographs by Abdul Hamid Kanu, Aina Zo Raberanto, Fibi Afloe, Lidudumalingani, and Thero Makepe

From July 18 until September 2, you can view the work of these five photographers on a high-resolution QLED monitor at the What is Happening Here gallery in Amsterdam. During the day, the photographs are visible on the monitors, and in the evening, passersby can see them from the street in the windows of the gallery. The exhibition is a collaboration with the curator and photographer Wesley Verhoeve.

Beginning next Friday, August 9, the newsletter will feature a lengthy showcase of the exhibiting photographers, one each week, and include an audio/written conversation, short essay, plus the gallery of images being exhibited.

For now, see a short description of the respective projects, and you can support these visionary photographers by following their work.

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Abdul Hamid Kanu

FREETOWN: STREET STORIES

Freetown: Street Stories is a documentary and street photography project that captures the everyday beauty of Freetown, Sierra Leone. This series celebrates the simple moments that define the city’s spirit and invites viewers to see the poetry in ordinary scenes.

See more of Kanu’s work on Tender Photo.

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Aina Zo Raberanto

SPECTRUM

“The whole thing takes on a misty appearance. The photo is no longer displayed, it alludes, and everything rests on the impression, to this particular atmosphere, like a dull melancholy. By playing on superimpositions, he accentuates the effect, deliberately plunging our gaze into an abstraction that opens up not to the world but to ourselves.” — Elie Ramanankavana on Spectrum.

See more of Raberanto’s work on Tender Photo.

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Fibi Afloe

GIDAN MU (OUR HOME)

This project is about a compound house my family and I have lived with other families for the past 70 years. The house has been sold and the new owner has given us notice to vacate it by July 2024.

See more of Afloe’s work on Tender Photo.

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Lidudumalingani

A VILLAGE RELEARNING ITS COMMUNAL RHYTHM AFTER COVID

The project was shot right after the COVID restrictions had been lifted and my village, Zikhovane, was trying to find its feet, returning to its usual communal rhythm after being forced to live a forced identity, that of living apart instead of together.

See more of Lidudumalingani’s work on Tender Photo here, here, and here.

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Thero Makepe

WE DIDN’T CHOOSE TO BE BORN HERE

This body of work is an exploration of Botswana and South Africa’s socio-political fabric through a personal lens. Blending staged portraiture, documentary images and re-enactments, I weave personal family stories with national history. These images are part of a photobook that addresses the history of musicality and activism in my family lineage.

See more of Thero Makepe’s work on Tender Photo.

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TENDER PHOTO is a collaborative digital archive and publishing platform of contemporary African photography, edited by Emmanuel Iduma. Our aim is to use photography to engage with life on the African continent. We publish narratives about the people, places, and events pictured in photographs, contributing to nuanced and layered perceptions.

Every Wednesday we feature a photograph, a short caption about it, and a statement from the photographer. Last year, we published commentaries or photo-essays in response to photographs previously featured on the newsletter, including CORRESPONDENCES, CONCORDANCE, KINDRED, INDEX, and AFFINITIES. This is the first edition of a series dedicated to the 5 photographers featured in Process Projected, Amsterdam.

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