• These photos look like documents of a bygone era.

    These photos look like documents of a bygone era.

    Wolfgang Jaenicke

    But they do not document anything that actually happened. Using artificial intelligence, they combine West African portrait photography, colonial archives, fashion images and historical exhibition scenes into a possible past....

    These photos look like documents of a bygone era.

    Wolfgang Jaenicke

    But they do not document anything that actually happened. Using artificial intelligence, they combine West African portrait photography, colonial archives, fashion images and historical exhibition scenes into a possible past....

  • Memories of a Past That Never Happened

    Memories of a Past That Never Happened

    Wolfgang Jaenicke

    At first glance, these photographs appear to come from 1950s New York. They show museum visits, gallery openings, shop windows, elegant gatherings, and seemingly incidental encounters with African art. Their...

    Memories of a Past That Never Happened

    Wolfgang Jaenicke

    At first glance, these photographs appear to come from 1950s New York. They show museum visits, gallery openings, shop windows, elegant gatherings, and seemingly incidental encounters with African art. Their...

  • An object’s biography – The Night of Djenné-Jeno

    An object’s biography – The Night of Djenné-Jeno

    Wolfgang Jaenicke

    ...one can imagine ‘grave robbers’ plundering graves beneath a tent in the pale glow of a camping lamp, whilst a full moon tries to illuminate their sinister goings-on.I took the...

    An object’s biography – The Night of Djenné-Jeno

    Wolfgang Jaenicke

    ...one can imagine ‘grave robbers’ plundering graves beneath a tent in the pale glow of a camping lamp, whilst a full moon tries to illuminate their sinister goings-on.I took the...

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