Angele Etoundi Essamba
Born in Douala, Cameroon in 1962, Angèle moved to France at the age of 10. She graduated from the Amsterdam School of Photography. City in which she still lives.
Her vision is at the same time aesthetic, idealistic, realistic and societal. She joins the spirit of humanist photography with a strong attachment to the values of communion. With colourful, tangled, and intertwined threads, she speaks of filial, matrimonial, and transmission relationships. Beauty, symbolism, and realistic utopia are illustrated by sculptural headdresses and a control of colours including black and white. Since her first exhibition in 1985 at the Maison Descartes in Amsterdam, her work has been frequently exhibited in museums, institutions, biennales, fairs and galleries in the whole world. In 2022, Angèle Etoundi Essamba’s photographs were entered MoMA’s permanent collection.