Emmanuel Iduma

Oct 18, 2024 | artnews.com | Emmanuel Iduma

It seemed to me, as I walked through the three-part “The Camera Never Lies,” an exhibition of photographs at the Sainsbury Centre in Norwich, UK, that each generation of viewers ought to come to photographs of the past on their own terms. As photographic technology changes, so does our understanding of history—what might have seemed radical in its intrepidness might now seem tame given the relative ease of taking pictures.

Sep 16, 2024 | artnews.com | Emmanuel Iduma

In the epilogue to The Unseen Truth: When Race Changed Sight in America,Sarah Lewis describes the foundations of racial hierarchy as “a photograph with no true negative.” It is an image without an index. She gives a clarifying example earlier in the book, while describing a ca. 1890 photograph showing the white painter Frank Duveneck and his class at the Cincinnati Art Museum. Duveneck is flanked by an idiosyncratic group of mostly white men and women, few of whom are gazing at the camera.

Aug 30, 2024 | tenderphoto.substack.com | Emmanuel Iduma

Many African photographers have sought to indicate an ‘everyday’element in their work. They aim to show nothing of the sensational, especially if the photographs are of places or people historically pictured in a stereotypical manner. Their everyday scenes focus on the usual rhythms of life, what might even be described as banal—such as the three elderly women in the middle of a game of Ludo in a photograph by Abdul Hamid Kanu, or a man crouching to hand his daughter a balloon.

Aug 2, 2024 | tenderphoto.substack.com | Emmanuel Iduma

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.

Jun 19, 2024 | taustralia.com.au | M.H. Miller |Brendan Embser |Emmanuel Iduma |Lucy McKeon

Let’s get this out of the way first: Of the dozens of photographers not represented here that a reasonable person might expect to have been included, the most conspicuous absentees include Berenice Abbott, Ansel Adams, Robert Adams, Richard Avedon, Dawoud Bey, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Imogen Cunningham, Roy DeCarava, William Eggleston, Walker Evans, Robert Mapplethorpe, Helmut Newton and Irving Penn.