September 12, 2020
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An online discussion organized by Fotofest Biennial 2020 featuring Azu Nwagbogu.
From Fotofest:
“African curator and organizer Azu Nwagbogu , Founder and Director of the African Artists’ Foundation and LagosPhoto Festival, and Curator at Large of the Zeitz MOCAA (Cape Town), joins FotoFest Director Steven Evans, for a conversation focused on Contemporary African photography, the role of lens-based institutions, and Biennial foundations.
The African Artists’ Foundation (AAF) is a non-profit organisation based in Lagos, Nigeria that is dedicated to the promotion and development of contemporary African arts and artists. Nwagbogu, a collector and curator, is also the founder of numerous other projects supporting and celebrating African arts and photography, including the National Art Competition, LagosPhoto Festival and Art Base Africa, which is a new virtual space to discover and learn about contemporary African Art and diaspora.
Azu Nwagbogu is a contributing writer to the FotoFest Biennial 2020 book, African Cosmologies: Photography, Time and the Other (Schilt Publishing, Amsterdam)”
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