Carmen McIntosh

[dropcap]E[/dropcap]very year the jury selects 101 of the best landscape photographs for the past two year approximately and collects them into a book, printed by Momento Pro, as well as being rewarded as best single photographs and best portfolio of four photographs. The book will a special coffee table book in various formats, including also an e-book.

[dropcap]T[/dropcap]he story begins with a pot boiling and some shouts in the background of people fighting with the camera zooming in on the black liquid. Then it’s interrupted by the headlines and the mid-shot of a black man that we hear is called Sam Kelly. Why is he the first man we see? Was he the one we heard fighting before the title? Sam Kelly is an Aborigen cattleman, who works for Fred Smith (Sam Neill), a Christian Australian landowner.

Afrotopia is the 11th Rencontres de Bamako which takes place in an Africa and is benefitting from a Western enthusiasm that neither terrorism nor social, political or military conflicts can shake. A new generation of African thinkers and cultural activists are renewing interpretative frameworks and are staking their hopes on Africa providing solutions.