Street Photography Africa

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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.
Extent: 256 pp
Format: PLC (no jacket)
Illustrations: 230
Publication date: 2026-10-15
Size: 27.5 x 21.5 cm
ISBN: 9780500030370
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Press Reviews

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



About the Authors

Nadine Barth is a curator and writer. In 2006, she founded barthouse, an agency for international cultural projects. She is the editor of over a hundred publications on photography, art, architecture and fashion, and has curated numerous exhibitions internationally. Azu Nwagbogu is a curator and the founder and Director of the African Artists’ Foundation (AAF), a non-profit organization that promotes art in Africa. He is also the creator of Art Base Africa, an emerging virtual space dedicated to exploring and contemporary African art. Tosin Adeosun is a London-based curator specializing in African visual culture and fashion history.

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