Sanlé Sory (1943–2023) - Initiés Dodo / Yokoro - 1975

Sanlé Sory - Initiés Dodo / Yokoro - 1975
Silver print - Signed
Sanlé Sory is a Burkinabé photographer, born in 1943 in Nianiagara in the Republic of Haute-Volta.
Ibrahima Sanlé Sory arrived in Bobo-Dioulasso in 1957. Having become a journalist and photographer, he also creates illustrations for record covers.
He opened his studio, Volta Photo, in 1962, as his country gained independence. He bought a Rolleiflex 6×6 and started by taking identity photographs and road accident photographs for the local police.
Quickly, he gains notoriety in Bobo-Dioulasso, which was then the cultural and economic capital of former Haute-Volta, where young Africans 'eager for modernity' come to 'have their portrait taken.'
Created between 1960 and 1985, his photographic work 'testifies to the happiness of a regained freedom and a social and cultural effervescence unique in its kind.'
Exhibitions
2015: African folk art, Regional Fund for Contemporary Art of Bordeaux.
2015: Meeting with 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, Galerie du Château d’Eau, Toulouse.
2024: "Look at me" / Galerie Art-Z, Paris and Arles
Photograph accompanied by a certificate of authenticity (Art-Z Gallery, Paris)