Sanlé Sory (1943–2023) - Bintou avec ses lunettes - 1975

Stamped and signed. Sory Sanlé is a Burkinabé photographer, born in 1943 in Nianiagara in the Republic of Upper Volta. Ibrahima Sanlé Sory arrives in Bobo-Dioulasso in 1957. Having become a journalist and photographer, he also creates illustrations for album covers. He opens his Volta Photo studio in 1962, as his country gains independence. He buys a Rolleiflex 6×6, and begins by taking identity photographs and photographs of road accidents for the local police. Rapidly, he gains notoriety in Bobo-Dioulasso, which was then the cultural and economic capital of the former Upper Volta, and where African youths “hungry for modernity” came to “have their portrait taken.” Produced between 1960 and 1985, his photographic work “testifies to the happiness of a regained freedom and to a social and cultural effervescence unique in its kind.” Exhibitions 2015: African Folk Art, FRAC Bordeaux (Fonds régional d’art contemporain de Bordeaux). 2015: Encountering 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.

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