Johny Pitts - Afropean: A Journal Italian Photography

Johny Pitts - Afropean: A Journal Italian PhotographyMrel 2024 Afropean: A Journal gives an alternative map of the continent, taking the reader to places like Cova Da Moura, the Cape Verdean shantytown on the outskirts of Lisbon with its own underground economy, and Rinkeby, the area of Stockholm that is eighty percent Muslim. Pitts visits the former Patrice Lumumba University in Moscow, where West African students are still making the most of Cold War ties with the USSR, and Clichy Sous Bois in Paris,

text and archival material

The book is not ordered around place and time but goes on a journey of exploration with the photographs providing a visual framework for the viewer to explore the human relationship to the body

who work with partners to help create better circumstances for these boys

but can no longer fulfill the promise of prosperity and grandezza

which concentrated on an area in the central Veneto

uneasy in its proximity to the queer figures asserting themselves between the pages

260 x 345 x 30 mm

sequence and design are true to the original printings

with the addition of the English translation

German edition

prior to an international tour

Text by Joachim Brohm