Jennifer Bajorek, review of KANE, Hamedine. — La maison bleue. Film documentaire, 55 min., Belgique, Tândor Productions, 2020, DCP/Bluray/DVD. In Cahiers d’études africaines, No. 254 (special issue on “Les équivoques de la dissuasion de la migration” [The Ambiguities of Migration Deterrence], ed. Camille Cassarini, Aïssatou Mbodj-Pouye and Kelly Poulet) (2024): 470-475. “Hamedine Kane’s remarkable 2020 film, … Continue reading Cahiers d’études africaines: Review of Hamedine Kane, La maison bleue [The Blue House]

Mama Casset. Portrait of two girls with a telephone. Dakar, Senegal, 1950s. Image credit: Centre de Recherches et de Documentation du Sénégal (CRDS). Catalog essay for A World in Common: Contemporary African Photography, ed. Osei Bonsu. London: Tate Publishing, 2023. A celebration of the visual and cultural landscape of contemporary African photography, this stunning paperback … Continue reading Studio Portraiture and the Postcolonial Archive (“A World in Common” at Tate Modern)

Curated by Jennifer Bajorek New works by Mow 504 (Mouhamadou Moustapha Souaré) of the Radikl Bomb Shot Crew (Dakar) Exhibition opening – Friday, October 15, 2021, 7:30–8:30 pm Hampshire College Art Gallery, Harold F. Johnson Library, Hampshire College LOOK AND FEEL is an artist residency and exhibition project realized with Senegalese graffiti artist Mow 504 … Continue reading LOOK & FEEL: artist residency and exhibition of graffiti works by Mow 504 of the RBS Crew (Dakar)

Unfixed: Photography and Decolonial Imagination in West Africa. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2020. Reviewed by Érika Nimis, in Photographica. March 21, 2023. Reviewed by Yann Petit, in Journal of Visual Culture. April 2022. Reviewed by Afonso Dias Ramos, in Sehepunkte: Rezensionsjournal für die Gechichtswissenschaften. March 2022. Reviewed by Daniela Yvonne Baumann, in Camera Austria. … Continue reading Unfixed: Photography and Decolonial Imagination in West Africa

“Analog and Digital Nigeria: Inheriting Serial Cultures in the Work of Kelani Abass.” International Perspectives on Publishing Platforms: Technologies of Image-Object-Text. Ed. Meghan Forbes. London and New York: Routledge, 2019. 25-44.

Invited lecture and seminar February 21-22, 2020 Department of Art and Art History, Graduate Program in Visual and Cultural Studies, University of Rochester This lecture draws from new research on representations of migrants and migration. It pairs an interpretation of Retention, a sound art installation (realized at the Le Mesnil-Amelot II-III detention center in 2011) … Continue reading Refugee Imaginaries

Mow 504, Monnaie de singe, 2021. Digital photomontage, dimensions variable. Image courtesy of the artist. © Mow 504. “This Past Must Address Its Future: Uses of African Non-Contemporaneity in Contemporary Art from the French Borderscape.” ARTMargins (2023) 12 (2). “Art History, Postcolonialism, and the Global Turn,” ed. Joshua Cohen, Foad Torshizi, and Vazira Zamindar: 69–80.

Collaboration with Erin Haney. During the 8th edition (2009) of the Rencontres de Bamako: Biennale africaine de la photographie, we interviewed photographers, curators, museum directors, biennial sponsors, and students and workers in local arts institutions to assess the biennial’s contribution to institutions for photography on the African continent. Our research was published in the form … Continue reading Rencontres de Bamako 2009 (8e édition)

“Fatimah Tuggar: Deep Blue Recodings.” Home’s Horizons (exhibition catalog). Ed. Amanda Gilvin. Munich and Wellesley, MA: Hirmer/The Davis Museum, 2019.