Discovering Sudanese Photography

Destination Sudan, accompanied by photographer Claude Iverné, who in 2005 founded, a not-for-profit that is both a photo agency and a library with a collection of more than 20,000 photos, books, films, and other documents . Objective: the conservation and dissemination of this little-known chapter in the history of African photography.

1955 © Rashid Mahdi / Elnour

How did you first come across the Sudanese photography scene?
It’s a long story that started in Cairo. An encounter that I had in 1998 prompted me to travel to Sudan a few months later. It became a country where I would...

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