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WEST AFRICAN PHOTOGRAPHERS

West African Photographers

Hélène Amouzou creates her own distinctive and haunting imagery, which speaks of the contemporary issue of the displacement of people and those in exile. Born in Togo, Amouzou now lives and work in Belgium. The photographs were taken during a two year period when Amouzou was seeking asylum theere and waiting for her official residency visa. She captures herself or her belongings (often her clothes) in an empty room with peeling floral wallpaper. In many of the images she includes a suitcase as a recurrent symbol of her state of flux and transit. She works with film rather than digital media, preferring the effects of chance and serendipity and she exploits the use of long exposures, playing with the photographic medium to create ephemeral and ghostly self-portraits. "Self-portraiture is a way of writing without words," Amouzou says. "My aim is to reveal the deepest parts of myself.”

Hélène Amouzou

Ruth Ginika Ossai

Omar Vicktor Diop

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