We’re not sure how December arrived on our doorstep as quickly as it did. But here we are, bursting at the seams with moments from the last four weeks.
It’s been such a busy week, as weeks in December tend to be. So much to do to get ready for holidays added to our regular schedules, which were already busy enough. Mike and I had an extra project thrown in unexpectedly. Our cat, Nelson, started bringing in live field mice. He goes through times […]
IN 1958 the American photographer Todd Webb travelled to Africa to document industry and technology. Commissioned by the United Nations Office of Public Information, Webb photographed the first full election in what was then Togoland (Togo now), oil rigs in Somalia (when it was still known as Somaliland) and copper mining in Northern Rhodesia (Zambia) as he visited eight African nations. Webb arrived in the last days of colonialism and, as Aimee Bessire and Erin Hyde Nolan point out in their new book Todd Webb: Outside the Frame, he was very much a white male outsider. But, at times, his photographs contradict his own romantic images of Africa. (He found the systemic racism in Rhodesia particularly discomforting.)