Tender Photo
Tender Photo, Haja Fanta, Damilola Onwah, Billie McTernan, Anthony Ogochukwu Agbapuonwu, Zenas Ubere, Olaniyi Omiwale, Emmanuel Iduma, Bongani Kona, MK Angwenyi, Amarachi Nnoli, Abdul Hamid KanuA digital platform of African photography.
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The TENDER PHOTO newsletter is the flagship project of Tender Photos, a digital platform of African photography and visual storytelling, founded by Emmanuel Iduma and Ayọ̀bámi Adébáyọ̀.
Curator, Researcher and Writer. Founder of Studio Marrah. https://www.hajafanta.com/
Ibadan girl in Seattle. Writer, Podcaster, Tech Leader. On earth as it is in heaven. ✨
Billie McTernan is a writer and artist interested in exploring the intersections between art & life.
Lagos-based curator and writer interested in indigenous knowledge systems, urban studies and the transformative power of art.
Zenas Ubere is a Nigerian writer and editor. He was selected for LOATAD’s 2023 West African Writers Residency Programme and was a participant in the SBMEN-Goethe Institut Art Writing and Criticism Workshop. He is the coordinator of Lolwe Academy.
Olaniyi Omiwale is a Nigerian essayist and poet.
Author of A Stranger's Pose and I Am Still With You. Founder of Tender Photos.
PhD candidate and lecturer in the Department of Historical Studies at the University of the Western Cape.
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Visual artist, onye Igbo.
Abdul Hamid Kanu is a Freetown-based photographer focused on everyday life, memory, and belonging. He also founded Muyu Journal, an art and culture publication sharing stories from Sierra Leone and its diaspora.
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