Also featuring works by contemporary photographers, the exhibit invites viewers to reflect on photography not only as an image, but as a creative and political process – and on how we respond to it today.

It’s “an exhibition that embraces African forms of self-representation during a moment when the African continent is coming into itself”, says Oluremi Onabanjo, MoMA’s Peter Schub Curator of Photography.

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