Recaptioning Congo - African Stories and Colonial Pictures, edited by Sandrine Colard

Recaptioning Congo - African Stories and Colonial Pictures, edited by Sandrine Colard

• Writers and artists take a new look at the photo archives of Colonial Congo

Recaptioning Congo places the colonial Congo's photography history in new perspectives. Six writers and everyday Congolese urban voices take an African-centered look at imperial archival images and provide them with creative, contemporary and/or literary 'captions'. The book, linked to an exhibition in the photography museum FOMU Antwerp, is based upon the extensive research of the photographic history of colonial Congo (1885 - 1960), conducted by Dr. Sandrine Colard. It contains a wealth of revealing images that highlight the relationship between past and present, Africa and Europe and Belgium and Congo.

Text in English, French and Dutch.

African Stories and Colonial Pictures.

19 cm25 cm2.5 cm