born 1960 · Australia · Photographer
Tracey Moffatt
Staged photographs and films on Indigenous Australian history and memory.
Something More, 1989Source: Wikipedia
PHOTOGRAPHER · BORN 1962 · NIGERIA
Samuel Fosso
Theatrical self-portraits in costume.
- Born
- 1962
- Country
- Nigeria
- Field
- Photographer
KNOWN FOR
- 1997Tati series
- 2008African Spirits
WHY THEY MATTER
Prince Claus Award (2001); Deutsche Borse Photography Foundation Prize (2023); first prize at the first African Photography Encounters in Bamako (1994).
THE LIFE
Fosso was born in Kumba, Cameroon, to Nigerian parents and fled to Bangui in the Central African Republic after the Nigerian Civil War. As a young teenager he opened his own portrait studio there, Studio Photo Nationale, and used leftover film to photograph himself. Those self-portraits became an end in themselves, and his later series, such as Tati and African Spirits, cast him in many guises to question identity and history. He became known abroad after winning the first African Photography Encounters in Bamako in 1994.
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