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Journées photographiques de Bienne, 3.–26.5.2024

Versus Series
Maryam Jafri

In 2011, while browsing the Getty Images website I realized that several historical photographs from Ghana that Getty Images had copyrighted, I had already seen at the archives of the Ghana Ministry of Information.

Digging deeper, I uncovered a trail of errors (wrong dates, incorrect captions) and manipulation of original photographs, errors ranging from seemingly accidental to more deliberate. Getty vs. Ghana takes the overlapping images in both image banks and posits them to tap into contemporary concerns about copyright, digitization, and the foreign ownership of national heritage. Corbis vs. Mozambique, Getty vs. Kenya vs. Corbis and Musée Royal d’Afrique Centrale vs. Getty vs. DR Congo follow this same strategy. (MJ)

Year of production: 2012-2015

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