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Another Africa
chronicles Robert Lyons' extensive travels through
sub-Saharan Africa: Senegal, Mali, Nigeria, Burkina Faso, Ghana, Kenya,
Uganda, Tanzania, and Ethiopia. The exhibit captures an Africa of untapped
strength and unimaginable beauty. Lyons' photographic mission is straightforward:
"What I'm hoping to do is to show you what we share, what human beings
share. Rather than saying what the differences are, I'd like to celebrate
our common humanity."
Robert Lyons. Signature, 1997.
Robert
Lyons. Taureg Women, 1991.
Robert Lyons. Greate Mud House, 1991.
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Lyons'
book, Another Africa (1998),
serves as the catalogue for this exhibition. It features "Africa's
Tarnished Name," an essay by internationally acclaimed Nigerian novelist,
critic, and poet Chinua Achebe that disparages the misrepresentation of
Africa by foreign artists and writers. Lyons says of his and Achebe's collaboration:
"We wanted to depict Africa in a different light, in a different manner;
one we felt was more in tune with our own experience. […] We wanted
to depict a view of contemporary Africa today." The exhibit will include
a selection of Achebe's poems that were written for the project. |
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