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Samuel Fosso


Born in Cameroon in 1962, Samuel Fosso lived in Nigeria as a small child but was forced to leave at the end of the Biafran war in 1972. He moved to Bangui, in the Central African Republic where he lives and works.

His first self portraits of the 1970s were originally sent to his mother in Nigeria to show her he was all right. His later images were a play on Western clichés,  and a form of  self-empowerment with a sense of theatrical beauty.