singles: JHahn_Dakar_BlackRock_32

Alicia Keys, Swizz Beatz, Kehinde Wiley, photographer Omar Victor Diop and Uche Nwaeji (L to R) at the opening of Wiley’s artist residency, Black Rock, in Dakar, Senegal. 

Designed by architect Abib Djenne, Black Rock will welcome artists, filmmakers and writers from around the world to create bodies of work in the western most point on the African continent. Photos by NY based artist Dwayne Rogers decorate the walls while local designer Aissa Dione created the interior.  

(Jane Hahn for the New York Times)