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A visual journey across mid-century Africa and America
Through a dialogue between black-and-white and color photography, Richard Hay Jr. reveals the quiet poetry of everyday life in midcentury West Africa and America. Rather than focusing on narratives of poverty, conflict, or exoticism, Hay approaches his subjects with a distinctly artistic lens, lyrically combining shared human experiences with local and global material culture. At times contextually ambiguous, the photographs invite contemplation of diversities and affinities between cultures that are an ocean apart and decades removed in time. Framed by an essay by renowned Nigerian author Emmanuel Iduma, Hay’s images reveal echoes that reverberate even today—moving backward and forward in time.
Price: $46.00
Pages: 112
Publisher: Kehrer Verlag
Imprint: Kehrer Verlag
Publication Date:
16 June 2026
Trim Size: 9.65 X 6.69 in
ISBN: 9783969002230
Format: Hardcover
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Richard Hay lives and works in the San Francisco Bay Area. He studied photography at Northwestern University, where he earned a PhD in Sociology. His work has been exhibited extensively in places such as the Los Angeles Center of Photography and the Center for Photographic Art in Carmel.
Emmanuel Iduma (b.1989) is a Nigerian writer and art critic. He is the author of I Am Still With You (2023) and A Stranger’s Pose (2018), and co-founder of Tender Photos, a digital platform dedicated to African photography. Iduma teaches in the MFA Art Writing Program at the School of Visual Arts, New York City.