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Samuel Fosso

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  • AS WE RISE: PHOTOGRAPHY FROM THE Black Atlantic, Saatchi Gallery London

    AS WE RISE: PHOTOGRAPHY FROM THE Black Atlantic, Saatchi Gallery London

    5 November 2024 - 20 January 2025 12 December 2024
    Samuel Fosso is included in AS WE RISE: PHOTOGRAPHY FROM THE BLACK ATLANTIC, an exciting exhibition of photographs from African Diasporic culture. Organised by Aperture...
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  • SAMUEL FOSSO: WINNER OF DEUTSCHE BÖRSE PHOTOGRAPHY FOUNDATION PRIZE 2023

    SAMUEL FOSSO: WINNER OF DEUTSCHE BÖRSE PHOTOGRAPHY FOUNDATION PRIZE 2023

    12 May 2023
    Samuel Fosso has been awarded the 2023 Deutsche Börse Photography Foundation Prize, for his solo retrospective at the Maison Européenne de la Photographie, Paris, November...
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  • SAMUEL FOSSO: MUSEUM DER MODERNE SALZBURG

    SAMUEL FOSSO: MUSEUM DER MODERNE SALZBURG

    22 October 2022 - 10 April 2023 10 January 2023
    The Generali Foundation at Museum der Moderne Salzburg organizes Samuel Fosso's first personal exhibition in Austria. From the mid-1970s onwards, Fosso has given a new...
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  • SAMUEL FOSSO: HUIS MARSEILLE, AMSTERDAM

    SAMUEL FOSSO: HUIS MARSEILLE, AMSTERDAM

    10 December 2022 - 12 March 2023 9 December 2022
    Huis Marseille presents a large-scale retrospective of the French-Cameroon photographer Samuel Fosso (1962, Kumba, Cameroon). The exhibition encompasses the entire museum to reveal the breadth...
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  • SAMUEL FOSSO: AFRICAN SPIRITS, MENIL COLLECTION, HOUSTON

    SAMUEL FOSSO: AFRICAN SPIRITS, MENIL COLLECTION, HOUSTON

    5 August 2022 - 15 January 2023 8 September 2022
    Samuel Fosso: African Spirits features the artist’s fourteen, large-scale gelatin silver photographs from African Spirits. In this series of self-portraits, completed in 2008, Fosso pictures...
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  • SAMUEL FOSSO: MEP (MAISON EUROPEENNE DE LA PHOTOGRAPHIE)

    SAMUEL FOSSO: MEP (MAISON EUROPEENNE DE LA PHOTOGRAPHIE)

    10 November 2021 - 13 March 2022 20 November 2021
    Working between photography, self-portraiture and performance, his work occupies a central position in the international contemporary art world. Born in 1962 in Kumba, Cameroon, Fosso...
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  • SAMUEL FOSSO: NEW PUBLICATIONS

    SAMUEL FOSSO: NEW PUBLICATIONS

    Two new publications from Steidl on the work of Samuel Fosso: 22 June 2020
    SIXSIXSIX Large-format Polaroid self-portraits, made in an intensive process by Fosso in his Paris studio in 2015 and 2016. Fosso's challenge was to create 666...
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  • SAMUEL FOSSO: A TOI APPARTIENT LE REGARD, MUSEE DU QUAI BRANLY - JACQUES CHIRAC, PARIS

    SAMUEL FOSSO: A TOI APPARTIENT LE REGARD, MUSEE DU QUAI BRANLY - JACQUES CHIRAC, PARIS

    30 June - 1 November 2020 19 June 2020
    Photography, video, installation: for the first time, the musée du quai Branly - Jacques Chirac will dedicate a major exhibition to contemporary images in all...
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  • SAMUEL FOSSO IN 'MASCULINITIES, LIBERATION THROUGH PHOTOGRAPHY' AT BARBICAN LONDON

    SAMUEL FOSSO IN 'MASCULINITIES, LIBERATION THROUGH PHOTOGRAPHY' AT BARBICAN LONDON

    20 FEBRUARY - TBC 2020 20 February 2020
    Through the medium of film and photography, this major exhibition considers how masculinity has been coded, performed, and socially constructed from the 1960s to the...
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  • SAMUEL FOSSO: INTERNATIONAL CENTER OF PHOTOGRAPHY INFINITY AWARD 2018

    SAMUEL FOSSO: INTERNATIONAL CENTER OF PHOTOGRAPHY INFINITY AWARD 2018

    10 May 2018
    Since 1985 the International Center of Photography has recognised outstanding achievements in photography with its prestigious Infinity Awards. This year's Art Award has been given...
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