TALK TALK TALK – African Photography Conversations at photo basel international art fair 2022
Date and time: 17 June 2022 / 1 pm CEST
Location: photo basel international art fair, Volkshaus Basel, Rebgasse 12–14, Basel
TALK TALK TALK is a series of presentations and discussions around photography in African contexts with the aim of networking the different initiatives and photographers on the continent and beyond. The format was first introduced by APS members FOTEA and CAP Association at the 2019 Bamako Encounters in Mali. All episodes are available at www.talktalktalk.photo and Apple podcasts.
13.00h – Panel Discussion
African Photography in Scientific Contexts
Etinosa Yvonne, photographer
Etinosa Yvonne is a self-taught documentary photographer and visual artist born and brought up in Nigeria. She works with various art forms including photos and videos. The primary focus of her work is the exploration of themes related to the human condition and social injustice. She currently resides in Abuja, Nigeria.
Danielle Powell, deputy head of communications, Swiss TPH
Danielle Powell is a communications professional with a passion for storytelling in global health. She is the Deputy Head of Communications at the Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute (Swiss TPH), where she shapes the external voice and image of Swiss TPH through copywriting, creative directing and content creation for print and digital mediums. Outside of Swiss TPH, she is a lifestyle photographer and film photography enthusiast with a focus on capturing honest moments. Danielle resides in Basel, Switzerland. She has lived in Germany, the Netherlands, the Cayman Islands and throughout the United States – where she is originally from.
Jörg Arnold, co-founder, Fairpicture
Jörg Arnold is a sociologist and historian and was Head of Marketing at Caritas Switzerland from 2002 to 2018. In this capacity, he travelled extensively to document development projects. His collaboration with the photographer Pia Zanetti, a very important figure in Swiss photography, was particularly intensive. After leaving Caritas, he used his many years of experience as a fundraiser to found Fairpicture, a platform for photography and video from the global South. Jörg believes that the representation of people in the Global South in the communication of development organisations needs to change. Marketing and fundraising should finally seriously address the issues of colonialism, racism and discrimination and redesign their campaigns. Not only bananas but also pictures should be fair.
Host: Benjamin Füglister, chair, CAP Association
14.30h – Talk
About the experience setting up a private museum in Africa with special reference to The Inside Out Centre
Roger Ballen, artist
Roger Ballen is an internationally acclaimed and award-winning photographer who has been living and working in Johannesburg and its surroundings since the 1970s. His oeuvre, which spans five decades, began with the documentary photography field but evolved into the creation of distinctive fictionalized realms that also integrate the mediums of film, installation, theatre, sculpture, painting and drawing. Ballen has recently built and founded the Inside Out Centre for the Arts. It aims to promote multi-media art that engages with themes related to the African continent through exhibitions and educational programmes. In this talk, Ballen tells the story of this enigmatic and special building during a time when public museums in inner-city Johannesburg are on the verge of collapse.
15.30h – Talk
The Contemporary African Photography Prize – 11 years
Benjamin Füglister, directing founder, CAP Prize
Benjamin Füglister is an artist and cultural entrepreneur born in Switzerland in 1978. He has lived in Berlin, Germany, ever since completing his studies at the Basel College of Art in Switzerland, and at the Utrecht College of Art in the Netherlands. In his artistic practice, he questions social conventions and explores their visual transformations. His particular interest is photography as a medium for visualising the shifts in the human image. In 2012 he founded the CAP Prize – the Contemporary African Photography Prize, which was awarded annually to five photographers engaging with the African continent ever since.
17.00h – Award Show
Winners Announcement: CAP Prize 2022 – The Contemporary
African Photography Prize
