AIDA MULUNEH STUDIO x WINDSOR GALLERY
PRESENTS
Africa Collection
Bringing the world to Africa and taking Africa to the world through images.
December 8, 2022 – January 21, 2023
Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire
December 8, 2022 – January 21, 2023
Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire
©Fatoumata Diabate
I planted the roots of Africa Foto Fair in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia in 2010. The main objective of that first biannual festival—then known as Addis Foto Fest—was to develop talent from within the country and across Africa. We engaged the international photography market to offer education, exhibitions, and exchange through images.
After a brief hiatus due to the pandemic, we are launching the Africa Foto Fair as an extension of the same mission that I started twelve years ago—with an even broader mission. By launching the Africa Foto Fair in Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire, our objective is to bridge an exchange between East and West Africa. Having had the opportunity to work with photographers in Senegal, Mali, South Africa, and the United States of America, I encountered barriers in language, culture and perception that has obscured our view of the creative richness of Africa. It was important for me not to only develop another cultural event in the West African landscape, but to also establish an online publication to extend the physical event into a global audience, and to continue the conversation unconstrained by physical or cultural boundaries. This online publication bridges the shifting global markets and emerging photography talents from Africa and beyond.
One of the fair’s key elements is the establishment in Abidjan of the photography printing facility “Africa Print House.” I and many photographers on the continent struggle to access international standardized printing facilities, which are often limited to only a few regions in Africa. Thus, it was just as important to provide printing services to professional photographers while also utilizing the online platform as a space to offer print sales. This also gives the global audience access to emerging talents from Africa and the Global South. In essence, my priority is to set up a base to address the core elements: education, exhibition opportunities and services. This will shift the trajectory of photography from Africa into the international market.
Join me on this exciting journey as we navigate a new frontier in collaboration and exchange through images and creativity by taking Africa to the world and bringing the world to Africa.
Aida Muluneh
Fonder/ Director
Africa Foto Fair | Aida Muluneh Studio
I planted the roots of Africa Foto Fair in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia in 2010. The main objective of that first biannual festival—then known as Addis Foto Fest—was to develop talent from within the country and across Africa. We engaged the international photography market to offer education, exhibitions, and exchange through images.
After a brief hiatus due to the pandemic, we are launching the Africa Foto Fair as an extension of the same mission that I started twelve years ago—with an even broader mission. By launching the Africa Foto Fair in Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire, our objective is to bridge an exchange between East and West Africa. Having had the opportunity to work with photographers in Senegal, Mali, South Africa, and the United States of America, I encountered barriers in language, culture and perception that has obscured our view of the creative richness of Africa. It was important for me not to only develop another cultural event in the West African landscape, but to also establish an online publication to extend the physical event into a global audience, and to continue the conversation unconstrained by physical or cultural boundaries. This online publication bridges the shifting global markets and emerging photography talents from Africa and beyond.
One of the fair’s key elements is the establishment in Abidjan of the photography printing facility “Africa Print House.” I and many photographers on the continent struggle to access international standardized printing facilities, which are often limited to only a few regions in Africa. Thus, it was just as important to provide printing services to professional photographers while also utilizing the online platform as a space to offer print sales. This also gives the global audience access to emerging talents from Africa and the Global South. In essence, my priority is to set up a base to address the core elements: education, exhibition opportunities and services. This will shift the trajectory of photography from Africa into the international market.
Join me on this exciting journey as we navigate a new frontier in collaboration and exchange through images and creativity by taking Africa to the world and bringing the world to Africa.
Aida Muluneh
Fonder/ Director
Africa Foto Fair | Aida Muluneh Studio
Exhibiting Photographers
Browse exhibiting photographers from Africa.
Exhibiting Photographers
Browse exhibiting photographers from africa
Alice Kayinanda
Rwanda
Life in the shadow: Life in the shadow is a long-term project on people with albinism and their families. I follow three women, their children, and two young boys that are in a boarding school. The subjects lived some kind of discrimination in their lives. I capture their images in their daily lives and write stories about them.
Amanuel Seleshi
Ethiopia
The Nile Delta is the end of the longest river in the world and home to almost half of Egypt's population that work in the Agriculture sector and rely primarily on the water of the Nile to irrigate their land.
Due to the rapidly increasing levels of pollution in the Nile Delta, caused largely by sewage drainage, garbage dumping, industrial waste run-off and poor water infrastructure management, farmers struggle to reach clean water that is sufficient to irrigate their land. Many of the Delta residents suffer from a number of diseases such as kidney failure that result from the contamination of their water.
Egypt is currently experiencing severe inflation in population that is expected to double by the year 2050. The increasing population would need more fertile soil, to accommodate their needs and much more fresh water for drinking and irrigation. In the year 1940, the water availability was 90 cubic feet per capita per year, this ratio has decreased to the third and the Egyptian government expects this ratio to decrease dramatically in the coming years. In addition, the rising sea levels compound the negative effects felt by the farmers of the Delta, as the mixing of the saltwater and freshwater (used for irrigation) causes harm to the soil. It is expected for the sea level to rise another 3 feet this century, this rise in sea level would cause a large part of the Delta to be uncultivable.
The environmental issues listed above, have far-reaching effects as thousands of miles away from Egypt’s Delta, work are ongoing on the construction of the Renaissance Dam in Ethiopia that will inevitably cause a drop in Egypt’s share of the water when the storage process begins, which in turn causes a lot of stress for the Delta farmers.
Aron Simeneh
Ethiopia
A photographic collection dedicated to the Azmaris – musicians famous for their musical ingenuity and lyrical wit – largely from a small village in northwestern Gondar called Burbax, Simeneh captures the history, tradition, heritage and the life-long journey of what it means to be an Azmari. In this photographic take of a musical world, Simeneh explores the coming-of-age of azmaris from childhood. Simeneh’s work tells the daily struggles of these musicians as they suffer some level of external and self-inflicted marginalization from the rest of society. Through pictures that depict various generations, Simeneh highlights the worries of the old Azmaris; that their traditions are under threat with the new generation not taking up the artform. 
Aurélie Jocelyne Tiffy,
Côte d'Ivoire
Celebrated for more than three centuries, The Abissal festival takes place once every year in order to show the greatest respect for ancestral values and marks the beginning of the new year for the N'Zima people of the Akan group of Côte d'Ivoire.
For them it is the occasion to repent, to forgive and to pray to the gods for a sweet and prosperous new year.
After a few editions plagued by Covid-19, the Abissa festival was once again celebrated in October 2021, during the celebration my work was focused on youth and their emotions towards the Abissa festival, and captured in portraiture form.
Barnus Gbèkidé
Côte d'Ivoire
Bongani Ndlovu
South Africa
Browyn Whitney Petersen
South Africa
Sylla Cheik
Côte d'Ivoire
For the mission " Cote d'Ivoire profonde " I had to visit and take pictures of the great sites, and the cultural and tourist attractions of my country. The Dozo culture is one of the most remarkable of the North of the country, I speak to you about it. The Dozos are known as traditional hunters of the Mande communities, called "donsoton" in Malinké language which literally means association or groups of "DOZOS" recognizable by their outfit made of a set of pants and camisole and a beret cut in the bogolan (traditional fabric) surrounded by small mirrors and amulets.
The Dozos trace the birth of their brotherhood to the famous West African empire of Mali (known as the Mandingo Empire), which existed between the 13th and 14th centuries. The term "Dozo" is from the Bambara language and is defined as a pious institution, a body of elites united by a functional link that is cynégétique, that is to say, people who kill, collect or capture game alive with strict rules and surrounding themselves with social, cultural and spiritual practices and values. One becomes a dozo after an initiation process. This Mandingo cultural substratum has favored its expansion in a large part of West Africa. Perpetuated through time, the Dozo culture has survived colonization while keeping a certain vitality. In Côte d'Ivoire, the Dozo society has found its roots in the northern territories of the country, where the Mandingo (Malinke, Dioula, Koyaka) and assimilated people (Senufo...) have long been settled. The dozoya aims at transmitting a traditional, multi-secular and multidimensional know-how.
David Maja Salako
Ghana
Dorris Haron Kasco
Côte d'Ivoire
Ebunoluwa Akinbo
Nigeria
Elias Gebrebrhan
Ethiopia
Georges Senga
Democratic Republic of Congo
Gulshan Khan
South Africa
Jean-David Niangoran
Côte d'Ivoire
Jodi Beiber
Soweto
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