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"Across the world archives of photographs are disappearing, but does preservation pose its own problems?A museum director and friend in Saint-Louis, Senegal, once said to me when I asked her if it was true that large numbers of negatives had been dumped into the Senegal River: "Si ce n'est pas de poissons, c'est des clichés" (There may not be fish, but there are negatives)."Ainsi commence le passionnant article de Jennifer Bajorek, "Decolonizing the Archive: The View from West Africa" (paru dans le dernier numéro de la revue américaine Aperture : Hello, Photography, #210, printemps 2013, pp. 66-69) qui soulève nombre de questions sur la problématique de la disparition et conservation des archives en Afrique de l'Ouest.Voir le sommaire du numéro ici