Street Photography Africa
Nadine Barth author Azu Nwagbogu author
Format:Hardback
Publisher:Thames & Hudson Ltd
Published:15th Oct '26
Should be back in stock very soon

A bold and dynamic survey of contemporary street photography from across Africa, featuring leading image makers shaping a vibrant and exciting genre.
Energetic, colourful, experimental: street photography across Africa has a well-established and complex history, and its own unique dynamic. From classic compositions of architecture, people and movement, to street-style portraits and photographs of youth culture, music and dance – the street becomes a stage. It’s about identity, personality and storytelling: friends skateboarding, a chance encounter, the hustle and bustle of megacities.
Selected and introduced by acclaimed curators of photography, Street Photography Africa presents the work of over thirty of the continent’s most exciting practitioners, interleaved with discussions of the locations, themes and communities that underpin Africa’s contemporary photography scene.
'This is a book that’s generous with its drive to platform African voices, welcoming diverse artists and subjects to tell an evolving, beautifully complex story of the continent' - Aesthetica
'African street photography gets the anthology it deserves… What develops across the 33 practices [featured] is a kind of expanded portraiture that breaks the silos of fashion, documentary, conceptual, and street photography in pursuit of an active force that traverses them: style' - W magazine
ISBN: 9780500030370
Dimensions: unknown
Weight: 1480g
256 pages