Artist Profile

Atong Atem

Your photographic works are beautifully staged and finished in colour by hand. Can you speak to the technical and artistic influences in your practice, in particular your ‘Studio Series’?

The ‘Studio Series’ was directly influenced by the works of studio photographers across Africa who directly challenged the European, ethnographic lens of most early photos of African people. I was initially inspired by photo and video technologies as weapons or tools that were used by

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