Award-winning architect David Adjaye is best known for his innovative and sometimes controversial structures. But he has also spent the last 10 years photographing all of Africa’s capital cities. Where a Western-born photographer may look for specific architectural details more palatable to the West’s reified conventions, Adjaye’s photography concentrates on an organic form of urbanism and his personal journey visiting Africa.
“It’s an architect’s journey, taken through the lens of my observations about places. It’s almost a tour, like the ones architects used to do in the 18th century in Europe, when you’d go to Rome and all over Italy to look around and draw what would inspire you.”