THE FUTURE IS IN YOUR HANDS, portrait photography from Senegal

268pp., b/w & colour illus., paperback, Indiana University Press, Bloomington, 2023

ISBN: 9780253067692

A history of portraiture in Senegal and how these photographs address themes of separation, visibility, rupture and repatriation in the context of decades of migration.

"The book does a wonderful job of complicating histories of photography globally, and through a combination of historical and ethnographic work, shows the enduring but changing power of images in Senegal." Joshua A. Bell, editor of Linguistic and Material Intimacies of Cell Phones

Beth Buggenhagen is Associate Professor of Anthropology at Indiana University. She is author of Muslim Families in Global Senegal: Money takes care of shame and editor (with Anne-Maria Makhulu and Stephen Jackson) of Hard Work, Hard Times: Global volatility and African subjectivities