Sudanese soldiers in the Anglo-Egyptian army (unknown photographer, 1899)
Photography in Sudan refers to both historical as well as to contemporary photographs taken in the cultural history of today's Republic of the Sudan. This includes the former territory of present-day South Sudan, as well as what was once Anglo-Egyptian Sudan, and some of the oldest photographs from the 1860s, taken during the Turkish-Egyptian rule (Turkiyya). As in other countries, the growing importance of photography for mass media like newspapers, as well as for amateur photographers has led to a wider photographic documentation and use of photographs in Sudan during the 20th century and beyond. In the 21st century, photography in Sudan has undergone important changes, mainly due to digital photography and distribution through social media and the Internet.[1]
After the earliest periods in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, for which only foreign photographers have been credited with photographs or films of life in Sudan,[2] indigenous photographers like Gadalla Gubara[3] or Rashid Mahdi[4] added their own visions to the photographic inventory of the country from the 1950s onwards.[5] In 2017, the Sudan Historical Photography Archive in Khartoum started to build a visual inventory of everyday life from Sudan's independence in 1956 until the early 1980s.[6] As documented in the comprehensive exhibition at the Sharjah Art Foundation on "The making of the modern art movement in Sudan", this period also includes Gubara and Mahdi as photographic artists during the country's prolific period for modern art.[5]
Since the end of World War II, professional photographers travelling the world, such as British photojournalist George Rodger, German filmmaker Leni Riefenstahl or photographer Sebastião Salgado from Brazil have created photographic stories of rural ethnic groups in southern Sudan that became famous in the history of photography in Sudan.[note 1] More recently, developments in tourism, global demand for photographs in mass media and the digital media of the 21st century have allowed an increasing number of Sudanese and foreign photographers to closely observe and record life in Sudan.
^Diallo, Aïcha (29 October 2016). "Where the White Nile and the Blue Nile meet". Contemporary and. Retrieved 21 March 2021.
^Sharkey, Heather J. (18 March 2003). Living with colonialism: nationalism and culture in the Anglo-Egyptian Sudan. University of California Press. pp. 56–57. ISBN 978-0-520-23559-5.
^Iverné, Claude (2015). "Gadalla Gubara". elnour.org. Retrieved 27 May 2020.
^Iverné, Claude (2015). "About Rashid Mahdi". elnour.org. Retrieved 27 May 2020.
^ abSharjah Art Foundation (2017). "The Khartoum school. The making of the modern art movement in Sudan". Sharjah Art Foundation. Retrieved 24 May 2020.
^The British Library (17 October 2017). "Creation of historical photography archive at the history department of Khartoum University". The British Library. Endangered archives programme. Retrieved 26 November 2019.
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