The undervalued customer

Mental Illness through photos by CSPhotography.

In Order:

1.) Anxiety

2.) Depression

3.) Insomnia

4.) Anorexia

5.) Paranoia 

6.) Schizophrenia 

7.) OCD

8.) Panic

9.) Bipolar 

CROWN by Gerrel Saunders

Natural hair artwork is everywhere, but very rarely are depictions of locs present in these creations. Trinidad-based artist Gerral Saunders of GakDesigns remedies this with his empowering new series CROWN. 

George William Kyeyune (Ugandan, born 1962), Nude, 2003

George Kyeyune is a painter and sculptor whose works display perceptive observations of everyday moments and people.

Kyeyune graduated from the Margaret Trowell School of Fine Arts, Kampala in 1985. He then travelled to India where he achieved an MFA, specializing in Sculpture, from the Maharaja Sayajiraho University of Baroda. The 3 years that he spent in Gujurat were transformative to Kyeyune’s artistic practice; through looking at the Indian religions and art forms which survived colonialism he was encouraged to question his own cultural inheritance.

Girma Berta (Ethiopian, born 1990), Moving Shadows V, 2015 and Moving Shadows VIII, 2016,Both edition 5/7 photographic print on textured archival paper

Girma Berta is an award-winning young artist based in Addis Ababa, whose work fuses street photography with fine art.

In Berta’s Moving Shadows series, solitary figures are juxtaposed against vibrant backgrounds, creating unique artworks which exemplify the contrasting colours and personalities on the street of his home town. Berta’s use of the digital medium to produce and present his artworks is a commentary on the digital revolution which is underway across Africa. Berta describes the motivation behind his work as a wish to capture “the beautiful, the ugly and all that is in between”. His images delve deep into the inhabitants of the city, offering his remarkable interpretation.

Eria ‘Sane’ Nsubuga (Ugandan, born 1979), The Stare Down, 2015, mixed media on canvas

Eria Solomon Nsubuga also known as ‘Sane’ is a painter, sculptor and illustrator. His recent works use vivid colours and strong brushwork to address politics of black aesthetics and the effect of globalism on notions of beauty in the African context.

This painting is from the exhibition Black Face, White Masks, in which Sane explored Frantz Fanon’s ideas of colonization of culture and identity, in the contemporary context of global cultural hybridity.