Photography as Apparatus: Akram Zaatari in Conversation with Anthony Downey

EDITOR'S DESK Sharing African Photographic Archives in the Digital Era: Exploring Their Material and Affective Dimensions

“…Nimis's recollections and questionings powerfully resonate with some of the topics explored by Akram Zaatari in the interview conducted by Anthony Downey in 2014 and here reproduced thanks to the courtesy of the authors and of the Ibraaz platform (Downey, 2014). While this interview does not specifically focus on African photographic archives or collecting and preserving strategies in Africa, we thought republishing it in this issue would help create bridges between practices and fields, which, despite efforts, still hinder knowledge production around different area studies.…”