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African Photography Initiatives

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African Photography Initiatives (APhI) was founded in 2007 by Jürg Schneider and Rosario Mazuela. Led by our enthusiasm for the African continent’s rich visual heritage, in particular photographs, and building on our work experience in the areas of culture, international cooperation and academic research we decided to create an organization entirely dedicated to African photography and photo archives in Africa. In 2007 we had the opportunity to do research in the Burundian press archives, the Agence Burundaise de Presse (ABP) which still exists. We discovered a rich photographic fund dating back to the late 1950s when the Belgian colonial administration created an Information Office with offices both in Kinshasa and Bujumbura. Our work in the ABP archives eventually led to an exhibition in the French cultural centre which was extremely well-frequented and, like the exhibition catalogue, well received by the local press. Since then African Photography Initiatives has been involved ... in a number of archive, exhibition and publication projects, mainly in Cameroon, which in some way or other had the common goal to save and promote African photography and the continent’s many endangered photo archives.