Sanlé Sory (1943–2023) - Les deux amis au Studio
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Has over ten years of experience in art, specialising in post-war photography and contemporary art.
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Sory Sanlé’s photograph *Les deux amis au Studio* is a silver gelatin print from 1975.
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Sory Sanlé is a Burkinabé photographer, born in 1943 in Nianiagara in the Republic of Upper Volta.
Ibrahima Sanlé Sory arrives in Bobo-Dioulasso in 1957. Having become a journalist and photographer, he also works on the illustration of record sleeves.
He opens his Volta Photo studio in 1962, as his country gains independence. He buys a Rolleiflex 6×6, and begins by taking identity photographs and photographs of road accidents for the local police.
Rapidly, he gains notoriety in Bobo-Dioulasso, which at the time was the cultural and economic capital of the former Upper Volta, where young Africans “hungry for modernity” came to “have their portraits taken.”
Created between 1960 and 1985, his photographic work “testifies to the happiness of a regained freedom and to a social and cultural effervescence unique in its kind.”
Exhibitions
2015: African Folk Art ?, Regional Fund for Contemporary Art of Bordeaux.
2015: Meeting African Photography, Mérignac Media Library.
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, Château d’Eau Gallery, Toulouse.
Photography accompanied by a certificate of authenticity
Seller's Story
Association for the Promotion of Contemporary Art
Translated by Google TranslateSory Sanlé is a Burkinabé photographer, born in 1943 in Nianiagara in the Republic of Upper Volta.
Ibrahima Sanlé Sory arrives in Bobo-Dioulasso in 1957. Having become a journalist and photographer, he also works on the illustration of record sleeves.
He opens his Volta Photo studio in 1962, as his country gains independence. He buys a Rolleiflex 6×6, and begins by taking identity photographs and photographs of road accidents for the local police.
Rapidly, he gains notoriety in Bobo-Dioulasso, which at the time was the cultural and economic capital of the former Upper Volta, where young Africans “hungry for modernity” came to “have their portraits taken.”
Created between 1960 and 1985, his photographic work “testifies to the happiness of a regained freedom and to a social and cultural effervescence unique in its kind.”
Exhibitions
2015: African Folk Art ?, Regional Fund for Contemporary Art of Bordeaux.
2015: Meeting African Photography, Mérignac Media Library.
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, Château d’Eau Gallery, Toulouse.
Photography accompanied by a certificate of authenticity
Seller's Story
Association for the Promotion of Contemporary Art
Translated by Google TranslateDetails
Date of print
1975
Artist
Sanlé Sory (1943–2023)
Sold by
Gallery
Title of artwork
Les deux amis au Studio
Condition
Extremely fine
Technique
Gelatin-silver print
Height
40 cm
Width
30 cm
Signature
Hand signed
Genre
Portrait
