ABSTRACT
In this chapter, the authors provide an overview of some of the trends before turning to detail a series of creative and forward-looking initiatives in Africa from which they, along with scholars and activists all over the world, are drawing inspiration now. At the turn of the twenty-first century, a number of respected institutions with significant holdings of photography entered into an exciting phase of archival experimentation. Exhibitions initiated by museums and collectors tend to narrow the qualities and dimensionalities of photography to meet certain formal and aesthetic criteria and to promote certain ideas about the value of photographs. Cross-regional collaborations would offer new networks for activists, cultural heritage, arts and museum professionals to expand and sustain the vital conversations that are already taking place around the medium at the regional level. In Uganda, artist and activist Andrea Stultiens has been quietly elaborating a series of fascinating collaborations featuring local photographic collections.
