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

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in New York and the book of the work won the Paris Photo-Aperture Foundation PhotoBook Award's First PhotoBook Award.

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

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, UK and an MFA in Photography from

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. He has lived in the USA since 2012 and as of 2021 was living in

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. He has lectured at

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, and

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; and been director of the photography MFA at

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. 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."

Publications

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:

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, 2021. Edited by Wolukau-Wanambwa. . *''Dark Mirrors''. London: Mack, 2021. . Sixteen essays by Wolukau-Wanambwa on

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, Paul Pfeiffer,

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, Jason Koxvold, Robert Bergman and others.

Books with contributions by Wolukau-Wanambwa

*''Knives'', Jason Koxvold. New York: Gnomic Book, 2017. . *''The Image of Whiteness: Contemporary Photography and Racialization''. London:

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, 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

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, New York, 2021.

Awards

*Winner, First PhotoBook Award, Paris Photo-Aperture Foundation PhotoBook Award for ''One Wall a Web''

Exhibitions

Solo exhibitions

*''One Wall a Web'',

, Syracuse, New York.

Group exhibitions

*''Greater New York'',

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, New York, 2020/21 *''But Still, It Turns: Recent Photography from the World'',

, New York, 2021. Curated by Paul Graham.

References

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