Flexing it! Mind-bending female photography – in pictures

Mee-Lai Stone, The Guardian, 1 Dec 2022
This new work by Joana Choumali, the first African photographer to win the Prix Pictet, in 2019, is from her ongoing series Albahian. In it, she photographs her surroundings at dawn before layering the images with embroidery. She says: ‘I have come to understand that what I was hoping to find in my journeys abroad, I finally discovered in my own home’