Amy Sall is a writer, independent researcher, and collector-archivist based in New York. She is the founding editor of SUNU: Journal of African Affairs, Critical Thought + Aesthetics, a pan-African, post-disciplinary platform exploring the artistic, cultural, and intellectual production of Africa and the diaspora across time and space. Amy holds a master's degree in human rights studies from Columbia University. As a Part-time Lecturer at The New School, New York, she conceived and taught two courses, “The African Gaze: Visual Culture of Postcolonial Africa and the Social Imagination” and “Third Cinema & the Counter Narratives.” Through her work, she has been invited to participate in and moderate a number of panel discussions and Q&As with artists, filmmakers, scholars and curators, and invited to deliver guest lectures at universities such as Yale.
Amy's work also extends to consulting and conducting research for entities engaged in projects, programming, and exhibitions relating to contemporary African and Afro-diasporic visual culture. She has worked with companies and organizations such as A24 Books where she served as Archival Consultant for the book On The Dance Floor. Amy's private collection, The Sall Collection, is an assemblage of studio and other vernacular photography, printed matter, and ephemera with a pan-African focus. Her work and interests explore the theory and praxis of cultural sovereignty, cultural preservation, anti-/de-/post-coloniality, human rights, visual culture, and the archive.
Amy's first book, published by Thames & Hudson titled The African Gaze: Photography, Cinema and Power, is to be released later in 2024. Aside from her writing and cultural work, she also collaborates with fashion and beauty brands. She has collaborated with and has been featured in editorials and campaigns for global brands and a number of publications.
Courses
Fall 2016, Fall 2017, Fall 2020 — The African Gaze: Visual Culture of Postcolonial Africa + The Social Imagination (Eugene Lang College; The New School University, New York)
Spring 2017 — Third Cinema + The Counter Narratives (Eugene Lang College, The New School University, New York)
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Syllabi are publicly available; CV is available upon request.
Dossier for The Sall Collection is available upon request.
Press kit is available upon request.
For consulting, collaborations, speaking requests and shoots, please contact info@amysall.com
*Images on homepage: Stills from La Noire de (1966), dir. Ousmane Sembène