Africa, a land comprising more than fifty nations and innumerable cultural
variations, has long been associated with spectacle, image, colour and representation. Since the advent of photography in the first half of the nineteenth century, Africa has been the subject for myriad photographers: indigenous and immigrant, amateur and professional, explorer and colonist, naturalist and artist, journalist and writer have for nearly two hundred years recorded intrepid expeditions and chronicled the transformations of physical, cultural and political landscapes. Photography and Africa investigates the themes that intertwine photographs and the circumstances of their creation, placing them within broader cultural and historical currents.