ABSTRACT
The specificities of photography in West Africa as it is reproduced and collected by public institutions pose significant questions for decolonial discourse and photographic historiography. Proposing an examination of contemporary photography permitting multiple channels and histories, this discussion between Jennifer Bajorek, Nina Mangalanayagam and Emese Mucsi debates strategies for photographic collecting, public access and the shifting condition of institutional collecting. In the light of moves by collections to address uneven representations within their collections through acquisition policies which might maintain rather than undo colonial modes of exchange, this discussion examines the problematics of collecting and the possibilities for the display of photography.
