MFON: women photographers of the African diaspora – in pictures
The MFON journal and book by Laylah Amatullah Barrayn and Adama Delphine Fawundu is committed to establishing and representing a collective voice of female photographers of African descent and features more than 100 from across the diaspora. MFON is named in memory of Mmekutmfon ‘Mfon’ Essien, a visionary photographer who died from breast cancer aged 34 in 2001. MFON has a legacy grant available to emerging black female photographers of African descent
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Robert Webb-Bey and wife N’seeka MacPherson-Bey Reading Quran together in their Memphis home.
Photograph: Kameelah Janan Rasheed
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Eberechukwu Ngozi, Nsukka, Nigeria.
Photograph: Ruth Ginika Ossai
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Kadeem in Studio, New York.
Photograph: Bee Walker
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Toni Parks, Torquay, UK.
Photograph: Lola Flash
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Mother, from the series The Object of My Gaze, Kingston, Jamaica, and London.
Photograph: Marcia Michael
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Untitled, from the series From Moussor to Tignon.
Photograph: Juliana Kasumu
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Sade, West Harlem Piers Park, New York.
Photograph: Naima Green
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Autoportrait, 2009.
Photograph: Hélène Amouzou
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Juba, the New Nation, Juba, South Sudan.
Photograph: Eman Helal
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Akan Attie, from the series Resilients, Studio Kerozen, Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire.
Photograph: Joana Choumali
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Eko-Moves, Lagos.
Photograph: Yetunde Ayeni-Babaeko
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Mfon Essien, 1999.
Photograph: Renee Cox
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Diva, Pretoria, South Africa.
Photograph: Manyatsa Monyamane
