Okay Africa – Walking into the International Center of Photography (ICP) on New York’s Lower East Side is an exercise in expanding your understanding—of concepts and ideas, and what they may once have meant. Like street photography, the subject of the center’s latest exhibition. In We Are Here: Scenes from the Street, the ICP hopes to encourage a re-framing of how we view the street and everything that takes place on it.
Bringing together the work of 30 photographers, the exhibition includes well-known African artists who’ve used the street and public space to directly confront issues of power and privilege. By asking who has traditionally had permission to produce images of our shared public spaces, and following the ways in which this privilege has shifted, the exhibition succeeds in refocusing our collective attention on what street photography can be—and what it certainly has become. Read the full story.