Samuel Fosso

Samuel Fosso ( bɛ dɔɣi o la silimiingoli July bɛɣu pinaayɔpoin dali,  yuuni 1962) o nyɛla ŋun nyɛ  Cameroonian-born Nigerian photographer ŋun tum o tuma nim pam o nyɛvuli puuni tingbani yuli booni Central African Republic. O tuma nim shɛŋa nyɛla din gbaagi self-portraits din jendiri gbansabila tingbana taarihi. O tuma ni tuun shɛli o nin ni tiɣi ka salo gba nini tiɣili n nyɛ  o  "autoportraits" din ni ka o ni tooi zaŋ o mamaŋ bee so dabam n sabiba ka bɛ nahingbana maa yɛri Kali yɛltɔɣa bee siyaasa yɛltɔɣa.  O nyɛla bɛ ni mi ka so nyɛ He Central Africa ŋun nucheeni tuma nyɛ din moori buɣim.

O daa dila kpaŋmaŋ pini din yuli booni  Prince Claus Award n be  Netherlands yuunib 2001 n ti lahi pahi Deutsche Börse Photography Foundation Prize yuuni  2023.

O pilli
Fosso nyɛla bɛ daa dɔɣi so tiŋyuli bokni Kumba, Cameroon, ka o laambi nyɛ  Nigerian bilichini nima . O nyɛla ŋun zooi  Afikpo, his ancestral home, hali ni sahashɛli o ni daa be  Bangui din be  Central African Republic o ni daa nyɛ yuun pinaata yuuni  1972 sahashɛli  Nigerian Civil War la ni daa tuhira.Jeune Afrique – Les 50 qui font le Camerou (April 28, 2009) biography Brigitte Ollier, "Samuel Fosso, le Narcisse noir" Libération, August 3, 2010. 

O kpaŋmaŋ pina
1994: 1st Prize, African Photography Encounters (Rencontres de la Photographie), Bamako, Mali
1995: Prix Afrique en Creations
2000: First Prize, photography category, Dak'Art – Biennale de l'Art Africain Contemporain, Dakar, Sénégal
2001: Prince Claus Award, NetherlandsPrince Claus Fund, Awards 
2010: 1st Prize in Visual Arts Prins Bernhard Cultuurfonds
2023: Deutsche Börse Photography Foundation Prize for his exhibition Samuel Fosso at the Maison européenne de la photographie

O Publication nima
Samuel Fosso. Seydou Keita. Malick Sidibe. Portraits of Pride. West African Portrait Photography. Raster Forlag, 2003. .
Maria Francesca and Guido Schlinkert. Samuel Fosso. 5Continents, 2008. .
Simon Njami and Samuel Fosso. Samuel Fosso – PHotoBolsillo International, Revue Noire, 2011. .

O Collection nima
Fosso's work is held in the following public collections:
Museum of Modern Art, New York: 14 prints (as of September 2018)
Purdy Hicks Gallery, London: 15 prints 
The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston: 7 prints (as of June 2020)
Tate, London: 25 prints

Kundivihira

External links
Noorderlicht, photo impression 

Category:1962 births
Category:Living people
Category:Cameroonian photographers
Category:Central African Republic photographers
Category:People from Southwest Region (Cameroon)
Category:People from Bangui
Category:Cameroonian expatriates in the Central African Republic
Category:Cameroonian expatriates in Nigeria
Category:20th-century Nigerian photographers
Category:20th-century Nigerian male artists
Category:21st-century Nigerian photographers
Category:21st-century Nigerian male artists
Category:Deutsche Börse Photography Foundation Prize winners.