CLPA News 2021 #1 Intimate Distances
CLPA News 2021 #1
This edition of the CLPA newsletter deals with the theme 'Intimate Distances.' This issue was conceptualised as a response to a world where Covid-19 and social and physical distance are a part of our everyday reality, physical contact and the body are taboos, and where we feel more cut off from each other than ever.
This edition marks the first time we were joined by external guest editors – independent scholar and writer K'eguro Macharia and artist and writer Neo Musangi (both from Kenya). The guest editors conducted interviews with CLPA members Ala Kheir (TOV), Andrea Thal (CIC), Maheder Haileselassie (CPE), and Uche Okpa-Iroha (TNI). These interviews speak to their individual and organisational practice and how they deal with ideas of intimacy, distance, trauma, rejection and more.
Also in this edition: two written features - From Bedroom to Bedroom by K'eguro Macharia, a meditation on the intimacy of photographic practice, and Take One And Two In Five Mistakes, Neo Musangi's response to the 'bad photograph.' Further contibutions by Eric Gyamfi and Silasse Salomone.
This edition also features 2020 CLPA Mentorship, where participating members worked with 1-2 particpants to create and develop bodies of work under the broad theme '2020.'
CLPA members and guest editors share their insights and experiences in this thoughtful issue, addressing not only photography practice but universal human concerns in this unprecedented age of isolation.
The CLPA (Centres of Learning for Photography in Africa) newsletter was established in 2016 with the support of the Goethe-Institut, initially as a closed newsletter for network members to keep abreast with photography education, related activities and developments across Africa.
Photo: currently spearheads the CLPA newsletter as the main editor with rotating guest editors. This CLPA Newsletter was supported by Open Society Foundation, the Market Photo Workshop, Photo:, and The African Culture Fund. The CLPA was originally established with the support of the Goethe Institut.
We thank all contributors for their valuable input.
Editions
The CLPA Newsletter editions are issued in English and French.
Members of the CLPA
Associação Olho-de-gente (Mindelo, Cabo Verde)
Center of Photography in Ethiopia (Addis Ababa, Ethiopia)
Contemporary Image Collective (Cairo, Egypt)
École Nationale des Arts (Dakar, Senegal)
Espace Photo Partage-DJAW/Mali (Bamako, Mali)
Kwanda Art Foundation (Kigali, Rwanda)
Market Photo Workshop (Johannesburg, South Africa)
Nlele Institute (Lagos, Nigeria)
Photo: (Johannesburg, South Africa)
The Other Vision (Khartoum, Sudan)
Yamarou-Photo (Bamako, Mali)
