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'The new paintings are a development of my early work that were scenes from roadside markets. All those people that I was painting, I didn't know them personally. Now I have decided to paint the people I know very well, like my son, my wife, and my close friends. I am often working from photographs that I have taken myself, it's a way to share my direct moments with the people around me, to show my surroundings and how I live.'

• Ajarb Bernard Ategwa

Ategwa offers a local perspective on modes of self representation in Central Africa today. Both style and composition in the …