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ean Depara’s photographs of nocturnal cosmopolitanism capture the effervescent sense of possibility that preceded and accompanied the Democratic Republic of the Congo’s shift from Belgian colony to early years of independence, in the mid-1950s to mid-1960s. A hedonistic night owl roving around the nightclubs and bars of the capital, Depara lived his photography as a participant-observer. Depara’s practice