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Samuel Fosso, a look back over half a century of career
“Tati”, “African spirit”, “The Black Pope”… His series of iconic self-portraits appear in the greatest museums on the planet, in Paris, New York or London. For half a century, Cameroonian-Nigerian…
Samuel Fosso and Tati, ready for portraits
Over the past decade, a real public and critical enthusiasm has developed around contemporary African art. Cameroonian photographer Samuel Fosso has been a pioneer for 30 years. His different series…
The photographer Samuel Fosso in a word, a gesture and a silence
The self-portrait virtuoso was born in 1962 in Cameroon and grew up without a photo of himself. Torn between his identities and his multiple homelands – Cameroon, Central African Republic,…
The photographer Samuel Fosso, virtuoso of the self-portrait
He is one of the greatest exponents of the self-portrait. Samuel Fosso, born on July 17, 1962 in Kumba, in the south-west of Cameroon, has enriched the history of photography…
Samuel Fosso, the “chameleon” of African photography
He is, with Malick Sidibé and Seydou Keïta, one of the biggest names in African photography. Samuel Fosso exhibits his self-portraits, his trademark, at the European House of Photography in…