Photographs by Lazhar Mansouri are featured in Africa Fashion, a groundbreaking exhibition offering "a unique insight into this aesthetic and cultural revolution, revealing an exuberant creativity, long marginalised by the dominant narratives."
The exhibition puts Mansouri's studio photography in conversation with other 20th-century portraits by photographers including Hamidou Maiga and Sanlé Sory – highlighting the innovative forms of self-representation born out of the democratization of the medium.
Organized by the Victoria and Albert Museum, London, Africa Fashion has traveled to the Brooklyn Museum, NY; the Portland Art Museum, WA; and the National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, AUS.
Africa Fashion will be on view at the musée du quai Branly — Jacques Chirac from March 31 – July 12, 2026
The exhibition is curated by Christine Checinska, Curator of the African and Diaspora: Textiles and Fashion department at the Victoria and Albert Museum in London
