http://www.imaging-famine.org/blog/index.php/2010/05/gay-rights-in-malawi/ Towards a revisualization of 'Africa' and the majority world Thu, 01 Sep 2011 10:13:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.4 http://www.imaging-famine.org/blog/index.php/2010/05/gay-rights-in-malawi/comment-page-1/#comment-56 The new visual stories of ‘Africa’ | David Campbell -- Photography, Multimedia, Politics Wed, 15 Sep 2010 15:27:10 +0000 http://www.imaging-famine.org/blog/?p=116#comment-56 [...] The problem with stereotypes, as Chimamanda Adichie says, is “not that they are untrue but that they are incomplete.” Because of this, the new visual stories of ‘Africa’ cannot ignore the issues of famine, injustice, poverty and war. While we can sympathies with Paul Melcher’s cry for no more “dying Africans,” we must have visual accounts of atrocities when they occur. However, they have to go beyond the stereotypes, as with the Condition Critical project on the Congo war or the coverage of human rights issues in Burundi and Malawi. [...] [...] The problem with stereotypes, as Chimamanda Adichie says, is “not that they are untrue but that they are incomplete.” Because of this, the new visual stories of ‘Africa’ cannot ignore the issues of famine, injustice, poverty and war. While we can sympathies with Paul Melcher’s cry for no more “dying Africans,” we must have visual accounts of atrocities when they occur. However, they have to go beyond the stereotypes, as with the Condition Critical project on the Congo war or the coverage of human rights issues in Burundi and Malawi. [...]

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