As migration continues to dominate global news and shape political discourse, mainstream media often carry stereotypical images of immigrants, portraying them as displaced, desperate, and criminal. The photographic practice of UK-based Nigerian artist Michael Oyinbokure (also known as Mike Kure) shows how African artists construct counter-narratives. He uses photography to express insider perspectives on life in the diaspora. His photography "presents what immigrants bring with them, their resilience, inventiveness, and enduring connection to their homelands," notes scholar George Emeka Agbo.

  Fernand Léger was born in 1881 to a family of cattle farmers in Normandy, France. His parents discouraged his interest in art so he initially apprenticed to an architect, in Caen, before moving to Paris in 1900 to pursue his art studies. Although he didn’t get in to the  École des Beaux-Artes, he studied classical drawing and painting independently. Influenced by Modernist painters of the time, including Cezanne, Picasso, Braque, and others,&n...