Marie Kohler: Make a Photo Yourself: Photos from Christoph Schlingensief's African Opera Village Fuji inspirational guide explores the subjects

inspirational guide explores the subjects and themes that have always obsessed photographers and explains technique in a clear and simple way

A Nikon-designed Phase Fresnel (PF) lens element

and includes an original signed Polaroid by Jim Goldberg

Certain spacial fears seem endemic to the modern metropolis

It has a 4 group optical zoom system and includes a large-diameter element

Marie Kohler: Make a Photo Yourself: Photos from Christoph Schlingensief's African Opera Village Fuji inspirational guide explores the subjectsOur image of Africa is characterized largely by stereotypes. We know the images of poverty, war, and children with water bellies, or the sometimes embellished by postcolonial romantic images of elephants at the waterhole. The Dortmund photographer Marie Khler wanted to show a different picture of Africa an image that was not clich, while projecting romance, without dressing. Kohler went for it in the opera village of Christoph Schlingensief in Burkina