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Sory, SanléYossi Milo Gallery

Born 1943 in Nianiagara, Burkina Faso
Lives and works in Bobo-Dioulasso, Burkina Faso

Sanlé Sory, Untitled, Gelatin Silver Print. Courtesy Yossi Milo Gallery  

Sanlé Sory’s photographs are key documents of the exuberant, youthful energy that animated Burkina Faso in the first decades of the West African nation’s independence from France. Sanlé Sory began his photographic practice in 1960, the same year that his country (then called République de Haute-Volta) transitioned from being a remote colony into a post-colonial nation. In his Volta Photo Studio, Sanlé Sory’s loosely painted backdrops featuring generic scenes of modern life, such as a cityscape at night, a leisurely beachside boardwalk, an expansive airplane tarmac and classical, vintage columns. Posed in front of his camera with assembled props, people from all walks of life—religious people, artists, musicians and children—could become a hero, and “experiment and play with elements of the modern world”. Sanlé Sory’s photographs have been exhibited in Burkina Faso, Morocco, the United Kingdom and France. The Art Institute of Chicago will present Sanlé’s work in a solo exhibition in Spring 2018.

Selected Artists

Botes, Conrad

Idahor, Taiye

Aboudia

Nzebo, Boris

Seydou, Kassou

Appah, Gideon

Ogunji, Wura-Natasha

Shonibare MBE, Yinka

Artists 2018

  • A

    • Aboudia
    • Adams, Derrick
    • Adewale, Alimi
    • Alatise, Peju
    • Andrialavidrazana, Malala
    • Appah, Gideon
    • Asidere, Duke
  • B

    • Baya
    • Ben Bella, Mahjoub
    • Bey, Omar
    • Binebine, Mahi
    • Boetti, Alghiero
    • Botes, Conrad
    • Boughriet, Halida
    • Boutté, Nathalie
    • Bruly Bouabré, Fréderic
  • C

    • Choumali, Joana
    • Cissé, Soly
  • D

    • de Medeiros, Emo
    • Diop, Omar Victor
    • Douglas Camp CBE, Sokari
  • E

    • Ekpuk, Victor
    • El-Salahi, Ibrahim
    • Erruas, Safaa
  • F

    • Fagbohoun, Dimitri
  • H

    • Hugo, Pieter
    • Hwami, Kudzanai-Violet
  • I

    • Idahor, Taiye
  • K

    • Kamel, Ahmed
    • Kamudzengerere, Admire
    • Kannemeyer, Anton
    • Kganye, Lebohang
    • Khanyile, Phumzile
    • Khelil, Farah
    • Koraïchi, Rachid
  • L

    • Lemaoana, Lawrence
  • M

    • Mabunda, Gonçalo
    • Maludi, Houston
    • Marasela, Senzeni
    • Mejri, Thameur
    • Meyer, Kyle
    • Mika, JP
    • Monosov, Rachel
    • Musekiwa, Terrence
  • N

    • Ngayimoko, Ambroise
    • Nzebo, Boris
  • O

    • Ogunji, Wura-Natasha
    • Okpa-Iroha, Uche
    • Olagunju, Niyi
    • Olatunji, Babajide
    • Osodi, George
    • Oukpedjo, Sadikou
  • S

    • Sanogo, Amadou
    • Saouabi, Nabil
    • Seydou, Kassou
    • Shonibare MBE, Yinka
    • Sibiya, Bambo
    • Sidibé, Malick
    • Sime, Elias
    • Sory, Sanlé
  • T

    • Takadiwa, Moffat
    • Triki, Gouider
  • W

    • Wahaab, Uthman
    • Wemega-Kwawu, Rikki

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