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Curator Statement by Daniel Cuthbert

Africa isn’t just a news story waiting to happen, scratch beneath the cliched images of starving black kids and poverty and you will see a wealth of talent and creativity. My aim this week is to show you some of the talent this continent has to offer and hopefully change some minds about perception many have about the continent. Daniel Cuthbert - weblink – is a UK born photographer based in South Africa.

Note: Daniel contacted me stating that photography from Africa deserves more attention. He also stated that there are more aspects to the continent then generally seen in photography. I totally agree and compiled the week together with him, presenting a mix of fashion-, human interest- and conceptual photography and photojournalism. Daniel’s statement that there is real talent, underexposed talent to be found in Africa couldn’t be more true. I would like to learn more about the African photography community, please contact me at editor [at] the blacksnapper.com if you are or know a photographer based or born in Africa that could be featured here. Diederik

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Selected by Daniel Cuthbert on February 3, 2010 | Tag: Africa, cityscapes, conceptual photography, self portraits, South Africa | Share/Save

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Luiza Burlamaqui said: 2010.02.03 15:34

Very moving and powerfull body of work.
julien paquin said: 2010.02.03 20:00

A masterpiece!
Lansoy Manu said: 2010.03.04 10:54

After you … maybe more other people in your pictures? I hope … Thanks for this good job, it gives us the opportunity to travel.

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Down Memory Lane

Alan Aubry (France, 1974)

Hénouville, France

My father worked on numerous construction sites abroad, in particular in South Africa from 1979 till 1985 to build a nuclear power station. I arrived there at the age of five.

In this period the regime of Apartheid tried to stay in power by applying a firmer repressive policy. There where ‘whites only’ places everywhere, restriction boards, borders and boundaries.

I was there during a historic period, but I only knew about it due to my education and to my schooling in a French school. In daily life, Apartheid was invisible for me.

I keep the memory of a childhood full of freedom, where the obnoxious constraints compulsory for the majority paradoxically offered me a powerful feeling of liberty.

After six years in Cape Town, I left South Africa in 1985, I was eleven years old, and waited for 21 years to come back.

In 2006, my wife offered me to celebrate my birthday back in Cape Town, my other “home.” It was a week in which many emotions surfaced. I felt the need for a photographic project, to experience intimate places and familiar atmospheres; visiting places where I use to go and also those where never I had been able to go before.

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