Sanlé Sory - Femme et enfant au scooter - 1976 - XL

Sanlé Sory - Woman and child on a scooter - 1976
Exceptional print due to its format (80 cm x 80 cm) and quality (Picto, Paris)
Sory Sanlé is a Burkinabé photographer, born in 1943 in Nianiagara in the Republic of Upper Volta.
Ibrahima Sanlé Sory arrived in Bobo-Dioulasso in 1957. Having become a journalist and photographer, he also illustrated record covers.
He opened his Volta Photo studio in 1962, when his country gained independence. He bought a Rolleiflex 6×6, and began by taking identity photographs and road accident photographs for the local police.
Quickly, he achieved notoriety in Bobo-Dioulasso, which was then the cultural and economic capital of the former Upper Volta, and where young Africans “hungry for modernity” came to “have their portraits taken”
Produced between 1960 and 1985, his photographic work “testifies to the happiness of a newfound freedom and a unique social and cultural effervescence of its kind. »
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Exhibitions
2015: African folk art? , Bordeaux regional contemporary art fund.
2015: Meeting African photography, Mérignac media library.
2018: Retrospective, Art Institute of Chicago.
2020: Tête à Têtes - West African Portraiture from Independence into the 21st Century, David Hill Gallery, London.
2020: Bobo Yéyé, Sanlé Sory, Galerie du Château d’Eau, Toulouse.
Photograph accompanied by a certificate of authenticity (Galerie Art-Z, Paris) , signed by the photographer.