In the Dark All Cats Are Black

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Research Article| August 01 2018 In the Dark All Cats Are Black Juan Orrantia; Juan Orrantia Photographs by Juan Orrantia is a Colombian photographer born in Bogota, Colombia, now working and living in South Africa. His work explores the ambivalence and ambiguity inherent in the photographic medium as a means to engage the possibilities of remaking memory, history, and biography. He has been awarded a Smithsonian Artist Fellowship-National Museum of African Art and the Tierney Fellowship in Photography. He has exhibited at the Lisbon Photobook Fair, Encontros da Imagem, Rencontres de Bamako, New York Photo Festival, Le Cube (Paris), and Bonani Africa Festival of Photography, among others. www.juanorrantia.com. Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Ethiraj Gabriel Dattatreyan Ethiraj Gabriel Dattatreyan Text by Ethiraj Gabriel Dattatreyan is an anthropologist based in London. He has been developing a body of filmic, photographic, and written work that explores the ways in which Somali, Nigerian, and Cameroonian students, entrepreneurs, and refugees living in Delhi and Pune imagine and experience “India” and “Africa.” He is also completing a monograph that focuses on hip-hop practitioners in Delhi and how they invoke American Blackness in their digital renderings of self to create social and economic possibilities in the city they call home. Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2018) 38 (2): 412–440. https://doi.org/10.1215/1089201x-6982167 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Juan Orrantia, Ethiraj Gabriel Dattatreyan; In the Dark All Cats Are Black. Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East 1 August 2018; 38 (2): 412–440. doi: https://doi.org/10.1215/1089201x-6982167 Download citation file: Zotero Reference Manager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search Search Dropdown Menu toolbar search search input Search input auto suggest filter your search Books & JournalsAll JournalsComparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East Search Advanced Search The text of this article is only available as a PDF. Copyright © 2018 Duke University Press2018 Article PDF first page preview Close Modal You do not currently have access to this content.