Mera

Documenting black visual culture - founder of https://afrosartorialism.wordpress.com

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Mohamed Yahia Issa

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Paul Kwilecki - Picking leaves, 1966

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Alice Neel - Abdul Rahman, 1964

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Derrick Adams - Human Structure Casting Shadows pairs, 2012

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Zoé Parisot - Fillette, Limete

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Phyllis Galembo

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Andre D. Wagner - Black Roller-Skaters

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Boxer boy - Lagos Studio Archives, Karl Ohiri

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Afrosartorialism is a blog that looks at African street fashion and fashion-focused digital culture from a Western perspective. As such, it is also an auto-ethnographic research proposition that focuses on identifying and overcoming possible biases in the way I, as part of the Western public, engage with representations of fashionable and stylish bodies in the continent.

These goals motivate my interviews with African emerging creatives. Recently I have had the pleasure to chat with Clinton Malik, fashion blogger from Kenya. I love his aesthetic and eye for detail that mix nostalgia and afrofuturism.

Head to Afrosartorialism - the blog to read the full interview.

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Vivian Maier 

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Have a look at Mous Lamrabat's FABULOUS work for Maison ART/C's new collection.

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José Cabral

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If you are into black visual art like myself do yourself a favor and follow Duro Olowu on Instagram. Picture credits: James Brown, “My Future VI (Eclipse)”, 2010 shown at Material 2012

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Nicola Lo Calzo - Inside Niger, 2012

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Paul Senyo, According

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Bill Akwa Bétotè - Bamako 1996

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Jamel Shabazz, Grand Master, Harlem, New York, 2010