Emmanuel Iduma

Biography

Emmanuel Iduma is the author of A Stranger’s Pose (Cassava Republic, 2018) and I Am Still With You (Harper Collins, 2023). His honors include the Windham-Campbell Prize in Nonfiction, C/O Berlin Talent Award in Theory, and the Irving Sandler Award for New Voices in Art Criticism by AICA-USA. 

Emmanuel Iduma by Ayọ̀bámi Adébáyọ̀
Ayọ̀bámi Adébáyọ̀

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PHOTOGRAPHY / Spring 2024

The Money Islands

Photography by Mathias Depardon ,  Essay by Emmanuel Iduma

In photojournalism, there are two kinds of pictures. One delivers the news with shocking precision: The image of a drowned Syrian child washed up on a beach in Turkey; the spectacular, eerie stillness of a protester about to be arrested in...

Sand miners freediving to collect sand in Meemu Atoll, near the island of Mulah. A dozen people can fill approximately two hundred bags—or one ton of sand—per day. Photo by Mathias Depardon.