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Capturing a Continent

Too often photography, like writing, from Africa is dominated by disaster porn—visions of war-torn villages, child soldiers, dictators, and disease.

Holiday 2016/2017 Anderson Tepper
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Capturing a Continent

Too often photography, like writing, from Africa is dominated by disaster porn—visions of war-torn villages, child soldiers, dictators, and disease.

Holiday 2016/2017 Anderson Tepper

Too often photography, like writing, from Africa is dominated by disaster porn—visions of war-torn villages, child soldiers, dictators, and disease. But with the new picture book Everyday Africa (Kehrer Verlag), which has grown out of the popular Instagram project begun in 2012 by Peter DiCampo and V.F. staffer Austin Merrill, a whole other landscape emerges. Here's the rich variety of life across the continent caught in moments that offer a more intimate, nuanced view, shorn of stereotype. No wonder the Everyday concept is fast expanding to all corners of the globe, where camera phones are revolutionizing how we bear witness to daily reality.

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