To encourage Africans and non-Africans to rethink their stereotypes about the continent and to share these new learnings through art forms, Invisible Borders, a trans-African photography organisation, has announced its iVisible Project.
The iVisible Project seeks to build a strong, rich community of mindful individuals interested in challenging the singular narratives that abound about the continent by curating a repository of lived experiences.
The vision of the project is to continue the fill in the numerous gaps and misconceptions posed by frontiers within the 54 countries of Africa and to continue to broaden the narratives about the continent through lived and shared experiences of individuals anywhere in the world within the African context.
The iVisible Project is open to submissions of images and text from professionals and non-professionals, artists and non-artists, individuals from all races and genders who are telling stories within the context of Africa. In other words, what experiences challenged your preconceived ideas or stereotypes of the African reality? Can you capture an image that reflects your relearning and tell a 500-word story around it? Then the iVisible Project welcomes your submissions.
Submissions have opened and guidelines can be found on the iVisible Project website: http://ivisible.org/submissions/