Stanley Wolukau-Wanambwa
Stanley Wolukau-Wanambwa (born 1980) is a Ugandan-born British photographer, writer, and educator, living in the USA. His series One Wall a Web has been shown in a solo exhibition at Light Work in New York and the book of the work won the Paris Photo-Aperture Foundation PhotoBook Award's First PhotoBook Award.
Stanley Wolukau-Wanambwa
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- 1980
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- academic · photographer · writer
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Stanley Wolukau-Wanambwa (born 1980) is a Ugandan-born British photographer, writer, and educator, living in the USA. His series One Wall a Web has been shown in a solo exhibition at Light Work in New York and the book of the work won the Paris Photo-Aperture Foundation PhotoBook Award's First PhotoBook Award.
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Life and work
Life and work
Wolukau-Wanambwa was born in Uganda and grew up in the UK. He obtained a BA in Philosophy and French from the University of Oxford, UK and an MFA in Photography from Virginia Commonwealth University. He has lived in the USA since 2012 and as of 2021 was living in Rhode Island. He has lectured at Yale University, Cornell University, New York University, The New School, and State University of New York at Purchase; and been director of the photography MFA at Rhode Island School of Design. The book One Wall a Web (2018) includes two photographic series made by Wolukau-Wanambwa in the USA—Our Present Invention (2012–2014) and All My Gone Life (2014–2017)—as well as an extensive essay and appropriated archival images. It "draws together poetry, critical writing, and photography to reflect on the ways that race, gender, and violence are woven into the fabric of (white) Western modernity. Set in America – with its history of injustice and its troubled present – One Wall a Web asks how documentary photography both participates in this complex play of forces, and suggests ways that we might find alternative pathways through it."
Exhibitions
Exhibitions
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Solo exhibitions =
Solo exhibitions =
• One Wall a Web, Light Work, Syracuse, New York.
Group exhibitions
Group exhibitions
• Greater New York, MoMA PS1, New York, 2020/21 • But Still, It Turns: Recent Photography from the World, International Center of Photography, New York, 2021. Curated by Paul Graham.
Publications
Publications
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Books by Wolukau-Wanambwa =
Books by Wolukau-Wanambwa =
• One Wall A Web. Amsterdam: Roma, 2018.. Photographs and an essay by Wolukau-Wanambwa as well as appropriated archival images. • Hiding in Plain Sight. Harun Farocki Institute; Motto, 2020. Co-authored with Ben Alper.. • The Lives of Images, Vol. 1: Repetition, Reproduction, and Circulation. Aperture Reader Series. New York: Aperture, 2021. Edited by Wolukau-Wanambwa.. • Dark Mirrors. London: Mack, 2021.. Sixteen essays by Wolukau-Wanambwa on Deana Lawson, Dana Lixenberg, Paul Pfeiffer, Arthur Jafa, Katy Grannan, Jason Koxvold, Robert Bergman and others.
Books with contributions by Wolukau-Wanambwa
Books with contributions by Wolukau-Wanambwa
• Knives, Jason Koxvold. New York: Gnomic Book, 2017.. • The Image of Whiteness: Contemporary Photography and Racialization. London: Self Publish, Be Happy, 2019. Edited by Daniel C. Blight.. • But Still, It Turns. Edited by Paul Graham. London: Mack, 2021.. Published in conjunction with an exhibition at the International Center of Photography, New York, 2021.
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Awards
• Winner, First PhotoBook Award, Paris Photo-Aperture Foundation PhotoBook Award for One Wall a Web
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- 1.Greater New York 2021. The Museum of Modern Art.
- 2.Stanley Wolukau-Wanambwa Archives. Nighthawknyc.com.
- 3.Juxtapoz Magazine - Stanley Wolukau-Wanambwa: One Wall a Web. www.juxtapoz.com.
- 4.Interview - Stanley Wolukau-Wanambwa: One Wall a Web. Paper Journal. 6 November 2016.
- 5.BJP-online's month in photobooks - 1854 Photography. www.1854.photography.
- 6.Stanley Wolukau-Wanambwa. www.lightwork.org. 23 April 2015.
- 7.Stanley Wolukau-Wanambwa. www.risd.edu.
- 8.But Still, It Turns Conversations—Stanley Wolukau-Wanambwa and David Campany.
- 9.Stanley Wolukau-Wanambwa: One Wall a Web: Book review by Taous R. Dahmani. 1000 Words. 24 April 2019.
- 10.Shinkle, Eugenie. One Wall a Web: An Interview with Stanley Wolukau-Wanambwa. American Suburb X. 26 February 2019.
- 11.The Image of Whiteness: Contemporary Photography and Racialization: Book review by Paul Halliday. 1000 Words. 3 September 2019.
- 12.Lubow, Arthur. Photographing Life as It's Seen, Not Staged. The New York Times. 5 February 2021. 0362-4331.
- 13.Greenberger, Alex. MoMA PS1 Reveals Artist List for 2021 Greater New York Show. ARTnews. 28 July 2021.
- 14.MoMA PS1 Unveils Artist List for 2021 Greater New York Exhibition. Artforum.
- 15.Exhibition Review: "But Still, It Turns" at The International Center of Photography (ICP). Musée Magazine.
- 16.But Still, It Turns: A manifesto for photography by Paul Graham. Vogue Italia. 16 March 2021.
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