5 Brilliant Photographers From Africa You Should Know

African photography is a medium through which African artists have long expressed their individuality, dating back to the 1840s, and it is still a well-established and dynamic form of artistic expression today.

Here are 5 brilliant photographers from Africa you should know about

1.Maganga Mwagogo

Maganga Mwagogo is a 25 year old Nairobi-based visual artist whose work includes The Kenyan Cool Girl’s Guide for Vogue and a series celebrating Kenyan queer culture through a stunning photo series exploring gay love in Kenya.

here are some of his works

2. Micheal Aboya

Michael Aboya, also known as Aboya, is a Ghanaian fine-art and fashion photographer. At the age of 19, he discovered his love of the arts and photography. He was studying software programming at the time, a subject in which he had no particular interest, but his parents wanted him to be a programmer. The journey and storey begin in August 2016, when he lost his father to cancer, which caused him to realise that one day he, too, will die; but will he die knowing that he pursued his dreams, or that he squandered his life?ithy personal essays.

Here are some of his works

3. Bubu Ogisi

Bubu Ogisi creates African fashion for Africans in Africa. Ogisi, the Nigerian creative director, stylist, and designer behind the label IAMISIGO, is dedicated to highlighting African philosophies, fabrics, and techniques. She and her tight-knit teams of artisans have created a label that defies many “rules” about what African brands are and should be.

IAMISIGO’s work is focused on using fashion to tell the colourful and complicated storey of Africa’s history, present, and future, rather than capturing Western audiences or selling big.

Here are some of her works

4.Ada Muluneh

Ada Muluneh is an Ethiopian contemporary artist and photographer based in Addis Abeba. In Addis Abeba and elsewhere, she does commercial work as well as photojournalism. Muluneh received the European Union Prize and the CRAF International Photography Award at African Photography Encounters.

here are some of her works

5. Prince Gyasi

Prince Gyasi Nyantakyi, better known as Prince Gyasi, is a Ghanaian international visual artist. He is the co-founder of Boxedkids, a non-profit organisation that helps Accra children get an education. Immediately upon seeing Ghanaian artist Prince Gyasi’s photo prints, one is struck by the soulful and vibrant colors

Prince Gyasi captures life in his hometown of Accra with bold, stylized iPhone photos. Gyasi’s frames embrace colourful contrasts between his subjects’ skin, dress, and surroundings, and he captures his subjects posed against colourful textured backgrounds and alongside the ocean, corrugated steel huts, and sunsets; he occasionally uses digital manipulation to capture his subjects posed against colourful textured backgrounds and alongside the ocean, corrugated steel huts, and sunsets.

Here are some of his works