Sanlé Sory / Studio Volta Photo A4 Print

This lithograph print by Sanlé Sory, a photographer from Burkina Faso, West Africa, was taken during the heyday of the Volta Photo Studio in southern Burkina Faso in the 1960s and 1970s.
 Sanlé Sory (born 1943 in Burkina Faso)
 The portraits of Sanré Soly (born 1943 in Nianiagara, Burkina Faso) are an important document of the vibrant youth culture that emerged after the small West African nation's independence from France. Having mastered the techniques of using a Rolleiflex twin-lens reflex camera and printmaking, Soly opened his studio, Volta Photo, in 1960. He became active in the dynamic music scene as a local reporter, event photographer, and record jacket illustrator. Soly was one of the earliest photographers to emerge from Bobo-Dioulasso (Burkina Faso's second-largest city).
 Solie's photographs are included in the permanent collections of the Minneapolis Institute of Art, the Art Institute of Chicago, the North Carolina Museum of Art, the RISD Museum of Art, and the Tang Museum of Art at Skidmore College. He has had landmark solo exhibitions at several venues, including the Art Institute of Chicago (Illinois) and the Institut Français de Casablanca (Morocco).
 Risograph print
 Printed: 2021
 Size: 330 x 240 mm
 Editing, design and printing: Sébastien Girard