Sory Sanlé - Les peuhls au studio

Sanlé Sory 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 did sleeve illustrations for records.
He opened his Volta Photo studio in 1962, as his country moved toward independence. He bought a Rolleiflex 6×6, and began by taking identity photographs and photographs of road accidents for the local police.
Soon he gained prominence in Bobo-Dioulasso, which at the time was the cultural and economic capital of the former Haute-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 regained freedom and to a social and cultural effervescence unique to its kind.”
Exhibitions
2015 : African Folk Art, Fonds régional d’art contemporain de Bordeaux.
2015 : À la rencontre de la photographie africaine, médiathèque de Mérignac.
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.
Photographs accompanied by a certificate of authenticity