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Recent Histories is the third exhibition in The Walther Collection’s multi-year series on contemporary photography and video art from Africa and the African Diaspora. Present- ed thematically and surveying a varied range of work, the series builds upon the collec- tion’s longstanding focus on African photography, providing a platform for engaging current practices. The series began in fall 2015 with The Lay of the Land, a group show examining the postcolonial African cityscape, and continued in spring 2016 with Close to Home, an exhibition highlighting new visions of portrait photography in …