We have some orphaned art pieces of Angèle Etoundi Essamba. She was born in Douala and grew-up in Yaoundé. Her long and recognized trajectory in realization of photographical register of black women started in 1985 in Amsterdam. In her work, Essamba breaks from stereotypical representations of an Africa torn by famines, epidemics and wars, instead celebrating the cultural richness and diversity of the continent. Her outlook is equally aesthetic, idealistic, realistic, intimate and societal. Naturally, Essamba’s work joins the spirit of humanistic photography, and is strongly attached to the values of communion, solidarity and equality between men. Pride, strength and consciousness of African women and the relation between tradition and modernity is what one can see through Essamba’s colored and black & white photography.
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