The German participants had never seen South Africa before. They expected to see only huts, broken roads, and poverty. But we, the children of Delft, showed them that we are much more than that.


Breaking with Eurocentric perspectives
Western media often form a one-sided image of Africa, reduced to poverty, heat and exotic animals. These images are the result of decades of Eurocentric narratives that portray Africa as the “other” – a continent full of deficits that need the West as a saviour.

- Water
- A day in the life
- My family tree
- Street photography
Historically, photography played a central role in colonial power structures. Colonial photographs served to cement certain ideas of power, superiority and “otherness”. They often portrayed indigenous peoples as exotic, primitive or inferior and thus contributed to the legitimization of colonial rule. These images were not only disseminated in colonial administrations and academic publications, but also shaped popular perceptions in the home countries of the colonial powers.

