{"id":2927,"date":"2011-03-15T13:42:52","date_gmt":"2011-03-15T13:42:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.foto8.com\/live\/?p=2927"},"modified":"2011-03-15T13:42:52","modified_gmt":"2011-03-15T13:42:52","slug":"the-kaddu-wasswa-archive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.foto8.com\/live\/the-kaddu-wasswa-archive\/","title":{"rendered":"The Kaddu Wasswa Archive"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"kw1\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.foto8.com\/live\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/kw1.jpg?resize=470%2C322&#038;ssl=1\" height=\"322\" width=\"470\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><br \/><span class=\"photo_copyright\">Christmas tea party at KW&#8217;s residency in Katwe, the start of Youth Day, 1957 (spread from The Kaddu Wasswa Archive)<\/span><\/p>\n<p>The  contested and, at times, controversial \u2018discovery\u2019 of the work of  Malian photographer Seydou Keita in the 1990\u2019s acutely highlighted some  of the difficulties that can accompany the First World consumption of Third  World imagery. The dislocation between his modest, functional and  inexpensive contact prints, and the feted portraiture that graced the  walls of New York\u2019s Gagosian Gallery, could not help but obscure many of the  works\u2019 more telling conditions of production, and indeed their less exalted, more prosaic meanings. As one academic <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"www.njas.helsinki.fi\/pdf-files\/vol17num1\/jedlowski.pdf\">described<\/a> it,  \u2018During their journey around the world, Keita\u2019s photographs have  transformed their social, cultural and political meaning, according to  the explicit and implicit intentions of some Western agents. Keita\u2019s  photographs have been transformed into market products and their  symbolic value changed encountering new audiences.\u2019<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"kw2\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.foto8.com\/live\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/kw2.jpg?resize=470%2C320&#038;ssl=1\" height=\"320\" width=\"470\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><br \/><span class=\"photo_copyright\">Arthur C Kisitu and KW with part of the archive (spread from The Kaddu Wasswa Archive)<\/span><\/p>\n<p>So  far, so familiar. But the question remains &#8211; how might a (photographic)  archive be best made accessible to audiences that are culturally,  geographically, and &#8211; inevitably, it seems &#8211; economically remote? The  fascinating <em>Kaddu Wasswa Archive<\/em>, co-authored by photographers Andrea  Stultiens and Arthur Kisitu, and the eponymous Kaddu Wasswa John,  provides many pointers. The Ugandan Kaddu Wasswa (the \u2018John\u2019 appears  optional) is described in the book\u2019s dustjacket as a \u2018peasant farmer and  anti HIV \/ AIDS activist,\u2019 but he is much more besides. Born in 1933 he  has worked as a civic leader, dramatist, critic and fundraiser; he  founded the first youth club in the country; he invented the  \u2018revolutionary\u2019 curry powder Ntula Spices; he served as an usher at a  state wedding; he was employed by Esso Standard East Africa, and British  American Insurance; messenger, apprentice, clerk, treasurer and  shopkeeper&#8230; it might be easier to identify positions he has not  held. Not the least of his achievements is to have assembled an  idiosyncratic archive chronicling his own, and related, activities in  the years following Uganda\u2019s bid for independence from Britain. It is  this archive &#8211; comprising boxes, collages, records, writings and a  biographical record book &#8211; that Andrea Stultiens presents alongside portraits of its subject, and contemporary Ugandan photographs. <\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"kw3\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.foto8.com\/live\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/kw3.jpg?resize=470%2C322&#038;ssl=1\" height=\"322\" width=\"470\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><br \/><span class=\"photo_copyright\">Spread from The Kaddu Wasswa Archive<br \/><\/span><br \/>The  result is an energetic, multi-faceted and fragmentary account of a life  and a time. Kaddu Wasswa\u2019s fondness for Jamie Reid-style ransom note  collages adds a bizarrely anarchic tenor to snipped headlines and  slogans: <strong>This is<\/strong> the way of&#8230; <span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times;\">Improving the Image<\/span><\/span>; <span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\"><strong>LEARN TO<\/strong><\/span><\/span> enterprete <em><strong>OUR<\/strong><\/em> Custo<span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\"><strong><em>m<\/em><\/strong><\/span>s&nbsp;<span style=\"background-color: #000000;\"><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\"> L<\/span><\/span>ogically; <span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\"><strong><em>jUMP<\/em><\/strong><\/span> right out. An  introductory autobiography describes him as \u2018a frustrated Voluntary  Social Worker with a unique record of \u201cFirsts\u201d in Uganda\u2019s NGO  activities.\u2019 Thereafter he details a series of enterprises and  initiatives &#8211; ranging from the import of Pepsi Cola umbrellas (to add  \u2018style\u2019 to youth club events), to appearances on Japanese TV and radio  (to promote his work in agriculture). Whatever the merits or  significance of such events, the fact of their inclusion is indicative  of the presence of Kaddu Wasswa amongst the book\u2019s authorial voices.  This is important; it bears on those issues raised by the treatment of  Keita\u2019s negatives. For as Kaddu writes elsewhere: \u2018Usually people do not  write their own history. Some people are given a history that is not  really theirs. But who can oppose and prove otherwise?\u2019<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"kw4\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.foto8.com\/live\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/kw4.jpg?resize=470%2C322&#038;ssl=1\" height=\"322\" width=\"470\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><br \/><span class=\"photo_copyright\">Spread from The Kaddu Wasswa Archive<\/span><\/p>\n<p>His  is not the only voice here though. There are many contemporary  photographs by Stultiens and Wasswa\u2019s grandson, Arthur Kisitu,  describing not only the Archive\u2019s subject and author, but also,  self-referentially, the process by which he and his work are being made  into a new, marketable commodity &#8211; a photobook (intelligently designed throughout,  by the way). So the African documents and pages from Wasswa\u2019s archival  boxes are frequently reproduced here in Stultiens\u2019 white, First World hands.  Wasswa himself is shown sifting through files, holding negatives to the  light, working with his new collaborators. Nominally this is a book about one man, and Uganda&#8217;s nascent independence, yet it succeeds in addressing broader, less local themes: the construction of archives, the handling of history, and the consumption of the past.<\/p>\n<p>Guy Lane<\/p>\n<p><em><br \/><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"review_photo\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/store.foto8.com\/media\/ecom\/prodsm\/kaddu%20cover100.jpg?w=1200\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/store.foto8.com\/ecom-prodshow\/Kaddu_Wasswa.html\">The Kaddu Wasswa Archive, A Visual Biography<\/a><\/em><br \/>Andrea Stultiens, Kaddu Wasswa John, Arthur C. 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