Under the Same Sky

North Africa has many metaphorical doors to open. With a territory encompassing 9,200,000 square kilometres of desert, 2,500 kilometres of mountainous terrain, the longest river in the world, a topography that kisses an ocean and two seas, and 275 million people, its photographers are unpacking the interiority of this place, reorienting us to their gaze through highly personal incursions through which they see their worlds and each other. We are invited to see what is sometimes hard to see¹–a world where photojournalism and speculative practices can exist simultaneously. North African visualism serves as a portal–not to undue representative constraints, which are often associated with commentary written about photography from the region–through which we can conceptualise the North African world as a prism: a prism where its photographers serve as the region’s recorders and futurists...Read the full article in the printed issue. Get OVER Journal 4