Photography’s days of machinic and visual innocence were over long ago. Once one makes peace with the terrible history of the camera and image making in Africa, and understand the camera and the photographic act as not a neutral process, then as photographers we can dwell on the many opportunities the medium gives us to deepen, become more critical and go inwards. Through the photographic process we also have an opportunity to resist the (re)production of flat and violent images that remain on the surface of things.