Nyaba Léon Ouédraogo - Fantômes du fleuve Congo

Nyaba Léon OUÉDRAOGO (born in 1978)

Nyaba Léon Ouédraogo is a Burkinabé photographer born in 1978. Spanning his life between Paris and West Africa, since the early 2000s he has developed an engaged body of work at the crossroads of documentary and aesthetic research. Through notable series such as The Copper Hell, he explores social realities, colonial memories and the transformations of the African continent. A laureate of the European Union prize at the Bamako Encounters photography festival in 2011 and a finalist for the prestigious Pictet Prize, his work is regularly shown in international institutions such as the Musée du Quai Branly.