The space between the making and the seeing.

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We sit with an artist for as long as the work takes. A film, a set of photographs, and an essay come out of it, and the three are published together.

Featured film

First Light on the Loom

Tọlá AdéyẹmíÌbàdàn, Nigeria

“She works the treadle four hours before she says a word to us.”

9 min
Featured photographs

Working Hours

Fatou NdiayeSaint-Louis, Senegal

“The dye tells you when it is ready. You do not tell it.”

Featured essay

What the Camera Cannot Hold

Bọ́lá Ògúnníyì5 min read

“By the third hour I stopped taking notes.”

Also showing

Brass Remembers

Yohannes BekeleAddis Ababa

“My father cut this mould. I only keep it fed.”

The current project

Artists at work

Three people record the same hands. A director films, a photographer shoots the whole roll, and an essayist writes what neither could carry. Nothing is published until all three are finished.

6Artists
14Films
11Series
16Essays