... simultaneously to sustain a sense of distance and closeness to others. © 2020 by Nka Publications 2020 East African photography portrait photography Swahili portrait photography modernity cosmopolitanism Journal of Contemporary African Art 46 May 2020116 Nka DOI 10.1215/10757163-8308234 ©...

... by a superficial new starting point is the small island of Lamu just off the wealth. Kenyan coast, with its diversity of Swahili, Indian, Today Ole is tiring of his city and slowly begin- and Arab culture. During his exhibition at the ning to distance himself...

... that it is because of the diversity of per- only North Africa, but also to some extent the spectives, voices, and, yes, agenda it accommodates. Horn, the Swahili coast, Madagascar, and, dare I This is what differentiates it, to a large extent, from say it, South Africa, were in some senses “not really earlier...