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This project follows the editing work for a special issue of the journal Africultures - "Perspectives africaines en photographie" ("African Perspectives on Photography") - dedicated to the present and future challenges of photography in Africa (n. 88, Paris, L'Harmattan, June 2012).With articles by numerous researchers, photographers and other contributors involved, at different levels, in the study or promotion of African photography, we wished then to lay foundations for new reports and readings - necessarily incomplete and unstable - almost twenty years after the first edition of the Bamako festival (1994), a festival which first hit the spotlight and somehow shaped "African photography" as a full artistic object, thus creating the conditions for an international recognition which was going to be organized later.Given the growing interest that "African photography" is gathering around many institutions located in the North and in a pivotal period when the "digital revolution" is upsetting a lot of established practices, this blog aims to extend, exchange and, if possible, deepen these reflections through a dynamic tool and over a long time period. Furthermore, in a context of globalization which surrounds the art world as well, new actors and initiatives highlighting this photography also emerge and get organized in the South, by presenting other works, archives and readings. This intervenes while, for a long time, light had been shed on few photographers only (and always the same), their growing recognition did not allow then to deepen in a very significant way the knowledge of different geographical areas or of other photographic practices.So, the crucial question today is less to move away from a Western-centered gaze - as it was the case in the 1990s-, but to try to decipher the various readings, discourses, proposals and actions promoting this photography, wherever that it is. Other objectives that we would like to perform through this forum: to contextualize these productions and to take into account experiences and works which remain outside a more or less organized system.Realized by 4 hands (and eyes!), in the form of scattered notes which will often take the shape of  questionings, FOTOTA aims to be an open space for reflections and to share researches about thematic knots which cross the vast field of the relationships between photography, Africa and its history, whether it be at the level of practices of production, promotion or receptions and through the analysis of various "materials" (exhibitions, curating works, catalogs, critics, scientific works...).From time to time, we would be happy to open this blog to contributions coming from researchers working on similar topics.