For quite some time now Bandjoun, the most important Bamileke chiefdom in West Cameroon, has been known on the international art scene as the place where Cameroonian artist Barthélémy Toguo established his art centre Bandjoun Station. In 2017 Yvon Ngassam, spent a two-month residency at Bandjoun Station. There, he developed his Bandjoun series, a body of […]
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Quiet (2015) is a photographic series immersing the viewer in the space that immediately follows a sexual encounter between a man and a woman. In these images Yvon Ngassam reveals moments of silence and concerns for an unknown tomorrow, as well as the presence of the other, complicity and tenderness. Exhibited in different forms, Quiet […]
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Feou Kake (or Feo Kage) is a Tupuri (North Cameroon/South West Chad) harvest celebration held for a week at the end of the rainy season and marking the New Year. The ceremony involves the sacrifice of a rooster by the Wan Dore – Tupuri people’s supreme or spiritual leader – to give thanks for the […]
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Blaise Djilo‘s series Against the Current (À Contre-Courant), 2015, presents the legacy of the late Aladji Garou, one of N’Gaoundere (North Cameroon) dignitaries who, in the late 1980s, built a religious and educational facility to help foster the integration of the local Muslim youth within civil society. Located in the Mosque is a French-Arabic primary school […]
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These pictures by Patrick Wokmeni span six years of photography (2006-2012) through snapshots taken in Cameroon, DRC and Belgium. ‘Nocturnal meanderings’ reflect Wokmeni’s fascination for nightlife and its uninhibited world. This selection takes the viewer from scenes of parties in New-Bell (Douala), to drunk-like haziness, leading to a bedroom in Brussels Red Light District. Find […]
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Wilfried Nakeu was born in 1990 in Yaounde. He studied computer science before venturing into visual arts. His encounter with Cameroonian artist Alioum Moussa introduced him to multidisciplinary practices ranging from new media and video art, through to slam, music and photography. This selection is part of a series developed during Nakeu’s visit to Benin […]
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Modes’Emploi (2013) is a collaborative project developed by artists Alioum Moussa (Cameroon), Mariko Kadi (Niger) and Pedro Pablo Viñuales (Spain). The project first started as a crossed perspective between Alioum Moussa’s reflection on second-hand clothes and fashion, following from his residency at the Pistoletto Foundation in 2010, and Pedro Pablo Viñuales photographic manipulations, to which Mariko Kadi’s […]
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Dominique Catton is an international photographer and multimedia artist based in Yaounde. Her work includes freelance assignments as content creator and visual communications strategist with NGOs and UN agencies worldwide. She also teaches photography and video. She has exhibited in Europe, the United States and Cameroon, including at Salon 2016, Photofusion, London; RAVY 2016, Yaounde; […]
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Samo Seymo’s work is predominantly concerned with the gaze and self-representation. Contemplating the Other Side (2014) is an experimental series born out of a photographic accident that led him to explore a variety of digital possibilities including the aesthetics of archive photography. Here, Samo captures deformations created by water reflections. His figures embrace undetermined sculptural […]
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Steve Mvondo Born in 1988 in Yaounde, Steve Mvondo is a self-taught photographer based in Douala whose interest in lens-based practices emerged in 2012. His work explores various photographic genres but he is mostly passionate about capturing images that narrate a story and bring the viewer to a place of questioning or contemplation. Mvondo was a […]
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Max Mbakop’s series is a work-in-progress documenting the emergence of roller-skating and BMX as part of the Douala’s urban cultures. His images show the social bonding of two different groups as well as their interactions. They also attempt to capture the figures performed by the riders and skaters up until the night. Click on any […]
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Rodrig Mbock: Bendskinners (2015) The term “benskin” from the English words “to bend (one’s) skin” means to bend the body. It also designates a traditional dance from West Cameroon. A dance once at the pinnacle of pop music by a famed band named Kouchouam Mbada that made it the basis of its repertoire over the last […]
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